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An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Davis. →
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“There is a sense of the grotesque about a person who has spent his or her life...”
– Baldwin, James, and Randall Kenan. “The Uses of the Blues.” The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings. New York: Vintage, 2011. 57-66. Print. (via stetx)
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Mentors: Matthew Specktor on James Baldwin
lareviewofbooks: MATTHEW SPECKTOR James Baldwin cc Allan Warren 1969 He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three. In his place came an emissary, a small, solemn fellow who cocked his head and closed his eyes and explained how Mr. Baldwin has been detained in Paris. I was nineteen, and had only a cursory understanding of who “Mr. Baldwin” really was. I’d read Giovanni’s...
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December 2011
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“The Day I Finally Met Baldwin The 1960s opened propitiously for me, and for my...”
– Chinua Achebe - The Day I Finally Met James Baldwin It always interests me to hear other writer’s encounters with James because I do believe he was a prophet. (via curlyingenue)
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Events in 2011 and forthcoming book strengthen... →
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“The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the...”
– James Baldwin
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“On the other hand, people who imagine history flatters them (as it does, indeed,...”
– James Baldwin, “White Man’s Guilt” (via notime4yourshit)
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James Arthur Baldwin Inducted to the American... →
We’re proud to announce that our 2011 inductee into the American Poets’ Corner is native New Yorker and fearless writer James Baldwin. A Native New Yorker from Harlem, James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) was shaped by the Jim Crow era, the black church, and by Greenwich Village, where he moved when he was 17. He escaped a strict, religious stepfather who had shepherded him into a career...
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The Jimmy Baldwin Project A call for the... →
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James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick
Date: May 27, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 1, Column 1; Book Review Desk Byline: By Julius Lester The hair is almost white now, but that is the only indication that James Baldwin will be 60 years old in August. Thirty-one years have passed since the publication of his first book, the novel ”Go Tell It on the Mountain,” and 21 years since ”The...
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James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; We Carry Him...
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 3; Book Review Desk Byline: By Amiri Baraka First of all, Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure, he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor. As man, he came to us from the family, the human lives, names we can call David, Gloria, Lover,...
Aug 2nd
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James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His...
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 1; Book Review Desk Byline: By Toni Morrison Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and invites contemplation instead. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself...
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July 2011
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Waiting for Giovanni: Life of Author James Baldwin... →
The complex mind of influential author and civil rights activist James Baldwin (Go Tell It On the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son) comes to life on stage in this new drama, examining the personal and professional conflicts battling it out in the Harlem-born Baldwin (WM. Hunter) as he works on the explicit novel Giovanni’s Room. Released in 1956, the book became known for its complex and...
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A James Baldwin Tribute: Colm Tóibín with John Edgar Wideman, Manthia Diawara, Farah Jasmine Griffin James Baldwin was one of the great American prose stylists as well as an acute commentator on matters of race and gender. His collection of essays, The Price of the Ticket, a compendium of nearly fifty years of Baldwin’s powerful nonfiction writing including Notes of a Native Son, Nobody...
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The Global Imagination of James Baldwin →
In February this year a first-rate group of scholars gathered in New York City to debate the legacy of the twentieth century American writer and critic, James Baldwin (1924-1987). I missed the proceedings, titled “James Baldwin’s Global Imagination,” so I asked one of organizers, Rich Blint, about the conference’s aims, Baldwin’s ideas and politics of Baldwin as well as what he would have made...
Jun 11th
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New Haarlem Arts Theatre Presents BLUES FOR MISTER... →
New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), the new professional theater company of City College of New York (CCNY), will present “Blues for Mister Charlie” by James Baldwin, directed by Eugene Nesmith, from June 23 to July 17 at Aaron Davis Hall, located at W. 135th Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan (Hamilton Heights). This will be the play’s first major New York presentation ...
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ListenJames Baldwin Tribute As part of WBAI’s...
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Florida Forum: James Baldwin - 1963 Author James Baldwin taped a candid and fascinating studio interview at WCKT - Miami in 1963. Featured in this edition of the long running program, “Florida Forum”: questions by an in-studio audience and a panel of local journalists.
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