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"They are works of resistance, much more openly composed when expressing the hostility of his characters to the social order."

By jschlosser
January 5, 2016 - 13:02
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There's a new volume of James Baldwin's collected novels coming out this winter from the Library of America. The above is Daryl Pinkney's characterization of these novels; here's a link to an interview with him about editing Baldwin's last four novels.

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Submitted by jccohen on January 8, 2016 - 10:34

thanks for posting this, joel!  especially interesting to me about baldwin's late novel, if beale street could talk, which is of course about a black man in jail and now seems to me to have in some ways a real michelle alexander framework many years before she was saying it...