{"product_id":"conversations-with-james-baldwin-literary-conversations-series-9780878053896","title":"Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987  from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names  his fourth book  to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.  Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here come from a variety of sourcesnewspapers  radio  journals  and reviewand show this celebrated author in all his eloquence  anger  and perception of racial  social  and literary situations in America.  Over the years Baldwin proved to be an easily accessible and cooperative subject for interviews  both in the United States and abroad. He frequently referred to himself as a kind of transatlantic commuter. Whether candidly discussing his own ghetto origins  his literary mission and achievements  his role in the civil rights movement  or his views on world affairs  black-and-white relations  Vietnam  Christianity  and fellow writers  Baldwin was always both popular and controversial.  This important collection contributes significantly to the clarification and expansion of the ideas in Baldwins fiction  drama  essays  and poetry. It gives additional life to a stunning orator and major literary figure who considered himself a sojourner even in his own country. Yet early in his career Baldwin told Studs Terkel: I am an American writer. This country is my subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666180071477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0878053891","price":45.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780878053896.jpg?v=1782422056","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-james-baldwin-literary-conversations-series-9780878053896","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}