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What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?
by theguppydream 6y ago
What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?
- dvtrn 6y agoThe Fire Next Time, IMO is a good entrypoint.
- jazzyb 6y agoIn addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation: A Fly in the Buttermilk Nobody Knows My Name Faulkner and Desegregation
- hardwaregeek 6y agoThe Fire Next Time has already been mentioned. You can read part of it as published in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-...
- werber 6y agoGo tell it on the mountain, it was his first book and lays the foundation for everything he did later. Amazing book