Dan Charnas

Author of "Dilla Time," NYT Bestseller, winner of the 2023 PEN Literary Award for Biography | WGAe | Order: | Events:

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

Still stunned. More to come, but thank you to @PENamerica, to the judges for your empathetic reading, to my fellow nominees, to @mcdbooks, @DavidDunton, @batnib, @walterspot. It is so gratifying to see this book valued not just for the tale, but for the telling.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

The 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography goes to Dan Charnas (@dancharnas) for DILLA TIME (@mcdbooks). Congratulations! #PENLitAwards

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

@murphdogg29 I mean...

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

@BWDBWDBWD You are very kind.

[MediaREDEF @MediaREDEF]

Kendrick Lamar Can’t Save the World. Why Do We Expect Him To? (@dancharnas - @nytimes) https://t.co/4j2XO1cevk

[:) @therotidoctor]

one of the best, most relevant pieces I’ve ever read. it’s about Lamar and the Super Bowl, but really about our relationship with pop culture. there wasn’t a single sentence that wasn’t a bar. @dancharnas idk who u are, but u dropped this 👑

https://t.co/kUKx2MyHzE

[Shawn Setaro @SameOldShawn]

My guy @dancharnas with a superb essay about the NFL, racism, the Super Bowl, and the sometimes stifling expectations we place on artists.

https://t.co/FrGhJtb0f4

[ASCAP @ASCAP]

To add to the celebration, last year Dan Charnas' Dilla Time earned the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in pop music. Today, we continue to honor Dilla’s profound impact on both the city and the world of music.

[ASCAP @ASCAP]

Happy J Dilla Day! On Thursday, Detroit came together to celebrate his legacy during Black History Month with the unveiling of "J Dilla Street." The city also declared February 7th as "J Dilla Day," honoring his monumental contributions to music and Detroit’s rich cultural fabric

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

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[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

Last week I told you about my first trip to Detroit, in 1999, to work with J Dilla. This week I’m going to tell you about my second trip, in 2008. On the eve of Valentine’s Day, a THREAD:

Detroit, A Love Story.

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

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Check it out from our friends at N+1... https://t.co/WDWKtpNefm.

[D a n y e l 🔆 S m i t h @danamo]

I truly didn’t know that people didn’t know that #QuincyJones was the founder of #VibeMagazine so I wrote about it in my newsletter https://t.co/PCArNZb5j2

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

I actually think she might have turned him had he accepted her offer. The reason he wasn't willing to travel to see her is that he knew his position and worldview were weak enough to be turned.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Harris was wise not to go on Joe Rogan.

That was a trap.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I have NEVER seen anyone as thoroughly eviscerated as Donald trump was by Kamala Harris that night, he was never the same after that.

It's one of my all-time favorite moments of 2024. ENJOY! 🍿

[2RawTooReal @2RawTooReal]

I said what I said!!! VOTE 🗳️ KAMALA

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

@cheo_coker 💯

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

For your morning: https://t.co/nQcqBo73kH

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

Bring the same energy to the polls today that me and Mix brought to all those pop radio programmers behind us who were like, “Mnnneyyeh, we can’t play rap on this station.”

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and use the next few minutes to escape to a place where the air is sweet. 💛💚

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“To my Republican friends, my plea is straightforward: From Gettysburg to Omaha Beach to Selma, Ala., Americans have fought and bled and died so that we the people could seek to perfect our union – not so that an authoritarian showman-bully could turn our national project into his own fief.” — Jon Meacham