![]() Sadie Stein is contributing editor of The Paris Review, and the Daily ’s correspondent. James Baldwin ‘I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ![]() You want to feel the passion and be reassured by the remove. You want to hear him read the whole novel. He does what he needs to: brings it to life. Author: James Baldwin Publisher: Dell Book, 1963 Binding: Soctcover Condition: Near. In The New Yorker, Claudia Roth Pierpont observed that, despite Another Country’s best-seller status, “ the language is stale compared with his earlier works-or compared with the burnished eloquence of his next book,” The Fire Next Time.īut hearing him read from it is not stale. Another Country James Baldwin 1963 1st Dell PB Edition. I am not an intellectual, not in the dreary sense that word is used today, and do not want to be: I am aiming at what Henry James called “perception at the pitch of passion.” I think I really helplessly model myself on jazz musicians and try to write the way they sound. Answering a prompt for The New York Times Book Review about why his book had become so popular, Baldwin wrote, The Dial / An Annual of Fiction (including) A Section From James Baldwins Forthcoming Novel Another Country by Baldwin, James and William Kelley and a. ![]() Very little can be added to this mesmerizing recording of Baldwin reading from his 1962 novel, Another Country. It goes without saying that James Baldwin was a legendary speaker-a preacher turned orator turned public intellectual who knew the power of words. ![]()
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