"If you're hoping to find holiday reading that is as educational as it is entertaining, look no further than [this] new book of discussions with legendary intellectual James Baldwin."
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Vogue.com "Resonant... Stellar interviews."
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Flavorwire "Of particular interest to those who seek to better understand Baldwin's biography and his complex and often contradictory legacy as a trailblazing figure in gay literary history."
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Lambda Literary "One of many reminders that Baldwin's observations on race, sexuality, and society remain relevant – and that the voice in which he made them remains one of the most compelling in all of American letters."
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Biographile "The great James Baldwin has his turn in the also great series from Melville House."
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Largehearted Boy, WORD Bookstores' Books of the Week Praise for James Baldwin:
"Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that."
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Amiri Baraka
"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."
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Toni Morrison
"Baldwin's way of seeing, his clarity, precision, and eloquence are unique . . . He manages to be concrete, particular . . . yet also transcendent, arching above the immediacy of an occasion or crisis. He speaks as great black gospel music speaks, through metaphor, parable, rhythm."
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USA Today
"[Baldwin is] among the most penetrating and perceptive of American thinkers."
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The New Republic