Happy 100th birthday to James Baldwin. A great mind and a great writer.
Happy 100th birthday to James Baldwin. A great mind and a great writer.
I got more and more into this kind of sensitive look at a life from the Harlem streets to fame. It‘s a long slow book, and very intimate. Loneliness takes many forms.
(Picture shows Baldwin in 1968, the year the book was published.)
Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it.
The next book for my Baldwin theme opens with the Leo describing his heart attack while performing on stage.
#titlestartswithat # septinbooks18 A Baldwin still on my TBR ,found fairly recently at a yard sale.
"If we had been on the island which had been witness to his birth instead of the unspeakable island of Manhattan, he felt, and I also eventually began to feel, that it would not have been so hard for us all to trust and love each other."