New Books Network 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 ★★★★ - 128 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...

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 ★★★★ - 128 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...

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

New Books Network - December 21, 2018 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 128 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...