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On Language

Leslie Savan, the author of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers we interviewed about "pop language," recommends these books on how we communicate:

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford

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