"I tend not to worry about writers as long as they are working—which is not as romantic as it may sound ...." - James Baldwin, May 1961
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Replying to @chrisgeidner
[From an essay about Norman Mailer, originally published in Esquire.]
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Replying to @chrisgeidner
Then, this happened, and I found myself amazed, yet again, by how directly (and at times harshly) Baldwin speaks to me.pic.twitter.com/PLXdKTFg65
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Seriously. I'm taking a break, and finish the book I've been savoring, essay by essay, for a year, and I hit upon this.pic.twitter.com/uW87iuBpjn
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Baldwin concludes: "[I]t cannot be too often repeated in this country now, that, where there is no vision, the people perish."
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James Baldwin, "The Black Boy Looks At The White Boy," Esquire, May 1961. Go see how he pulled all of that into an essay on Norman Mailer.
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