I’ve plugged former Little Rocker David Ramsey’s article in the new Oxford American about teaching school in the recovery school district of New Orleans and his students deep love of Lil Wayne several times before. But now it’s online for free reading, and it’s getting noticed. Today, on his New Yorker blog, Sasha Frere-Jones calls it a “gorgeous piece of writing” and says that it’s “a tonic; the brief sections set up a rhythm uncommon in most nonfiction in general and criticism in particular.”

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