Damon Young
Pittsburgh writer DAMON YOUNG's debut memoir, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Ecco), won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. A founder of the culture blog Very Smart Brothas and creator and host of the Crooked Media podcast Stuck with Damon Young, Damon has been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine , a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times , and a columnist for GQ and was the inaugural writer-in-residence at the University of...See more
Pittsburgh writer DAMON YOUNG's debut memoir, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Ecco), won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. A founder of the culture blog Very Smart Brothas and creator and host of the Crooked Media podcast Stuck with Damon Young, Damon has been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine , a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times , and a columnist for GQ and was the inaugural writer-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh's David C. Frederick Honors College. See less
