Everybody should read this book. Not only because it is extremely written, not repetetive (like some essays can be), to the point and just bloody brilliant but above all because sadly it is still relevant. If you think that musings of a black gay man reflecting on America in the 50s somehow have not...
Baldwin isn't just a thoughtful essayist in these two landmark pieces from the 1960s about where race relations stand in the U.S., his writing has an intimacy and intensity that makes me feel as if he's making his case to one person at a time.
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