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by theguppydream 1962 days ago
What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?
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hardwaregeek 1962 days ago
The Fire Next Time has already been mentioned. You can read part of it as published in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-...
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jazzyb 1962 days ago
In addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation:

A Fly in the Buttermilk

Nobody Knows My Name

Faulkner and Desegregation

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dvtrn 1962 days ago
The Fire Next Time, IMO is a good entrypoint.
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werber 1962 days ago
Go tell it on the mountain, it was his first book and lays the foundation for everything he did later. Amazing book
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