Mychal Denzel Smith is a writer. His latest book is called Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream. It won the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. | Mychal Denzel Smith
"With searing vision and unwavering clarity, Mychal Denzel Smith dismantles our most enduring myths and dangerous national illusions. His argument is personal, intimate. It calls on us, line by line, to do the hard work of truthful living: to hold past and present, love and criticism, up in equal measure. Stakes Is High will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important works of the decade; as social critique, as personal essay, as a master class in language. Keep it within arm's length...| Mychal Denzel Smith