Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Requirements: .MP3 reader, 189 mbOverview: Set in the 1950’s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin’s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of […]
The Devil Finds Work by James BaldwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.1mbOverview: From “the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness. Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here […]
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas FieldRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4 mbOverview: Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular […]
Notes of a Native Son by James BaldwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1,8 MBOverview: A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer. Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on […]
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, read by Jesse L. MartinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 62.4mbOverview: The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and […]