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cabulia's review
5.0
On James Baldwin, to borrow from Mary Oliver: “I never met any of my friends, of course, in a usual way—they were strangers, and lived only in their writings. But if they were only shadow-companions, still they were constant, and powerful, and amazing. That is, they said amazing things, and for me it changed the world.”
So on James Baldwin: An intellectual landing point, whose coherence and long-sighted contemplation, whose way of knowing and moving, connect me to the place I can be, human, where I can reassemble and re-articulate my private points of view, for my own place to speak from, and then live in the world. In love.
So on James Baldwin: An intellectual landing point, whose coherence and long-sighted contemplation, whose way of knowing and moving, connect me to the place I can be, human, where I can reassemble and re-articulate my private points of view, for my own place to speak from, and then live in the world. In love.
teelight's review
4.0
When it comes to Baldwin's interviews I think I prefer watching and listening to them to reading them. Tone is so important in an interview and it doesn't come across as well in written form. I appreciate these interviews because they flesh out his thoughts on some of his books and they show some of the fire he had (especially in the interview with the English man, it seems like in written form they just spent an hour yelling at each other). I think the problem I had with this book is actually mentioned in the introduction. Many of the ideas and themes are repeated over and over again in the interviews. If anything I come out impressed at how consistent Baldwin was in his answers over the years.
For people that are really into James Baldwin I would recommend this. For people just getting into him I would say start with his fiction or essays and work up to this down the road.
For people that are really into James Baldwin I would recommend this. For people just getting into him I would say start with his fiction or essays and work up to this down the road.