Podcast Episodes featuring James Baldwin

Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

New Books Network - December 28, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded interest in the social and psychological conseque...

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own - Hugh Hewitt with Eddie Glaude Jr.

Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News - July 14, 2020 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 660 ratings
Hugh Hewitt invites Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. to share about his new book, "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

New Books Network - October 30, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Nicholas Buccola’s new book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University Press, 2019), uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their...

Celebrating James Baldwin

Selected Shorts - October 10, 2019 17:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
Guest host LeVar Burton presents a program celebrating the author he calls “potent and polemical.” Christopher Jackson reads an excerpt from Baldwin’s famous letter The Fire Next Time: in “My Dungeon Shook,” he addresses internalized racism. Next, Anthony Rapp performs an excerpt from G...

James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)

New Books Network - December 21, 2018 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was published in 1976 and then went out of print. In this new edition, scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennife...

James Baldwin's Children's Book

Library Talks - November 18, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Did you know that when James Baldwin was writing "If Beale Street Could Talk" he was also writing a children's book? "Little Man, Little Man" was inspired by his young nephew and was first published in 1976. At the time, it got mixed reviews, went out of print and was largely forgotten. But 40 y...

Comin' In Singin' (Aretha Franklin, Blackkklansman, Latin America Writers, WOC writers, James Baldwin)

Minority Korner - August 17, 2018 05:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Warning! We recorded this episode earlier in the week before the passing of the great Aretha Franklin. We mean in no way to pay disrespect, and pay great homage to how she pathed the way for future generations of black artist and people to live their truth. Off the bat the wonder twins talking a...

A Civic Duty to Honor James Baldwin (Delta, Jury Duty, James Baldwin, J.Lo, Tia Carrere)

Minority Korner - August 10, 2018 06:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
This week James is steering the ship with a korner dedicated to the greatness of James Baldwin, but before the wonder twins start their adoration- we gotta talk about Delta. Gurl, Delta you betta fix your mess! James was cast as Jury number 1 in the role of actual real life civic duty. The two a...

Beers with James Baldwin

The TLS Podcast - April 12, 2017 23:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratings
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – TLS editor James Campbell, Baldwin's biographer and friend, on the writer's complex presence and legacy on and off screen; Michael Rosen on the "disappearance" of Émile Zola and the long, dappled shadow of the Dreyfus Affair; Jane Yager on a sensational and p...