The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Bowie Book Club Podcast
English - August 28, 2017 16:10 - 29 minutes - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsBooks Arts Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This time we read a book that was published in 1962, but speaks with incredible clarity to the events of this month and to the essential question that our country has never been able to resolve - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book that was published in 1962, but speaks with incredible clarity to the events of this month and to the essential question that our country has never been able to resolve - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Stuff we Mentioned
James Baldwin in Turkey - Photographs by Sedat Pakay at the Northwest African-American Museum
The Paris Review Interview with James Baldwin
Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
What's Up Next
The Bridge by the poet Hart Crane
What Song Did We Choose?
We didn't really choose a song to go with the book this time, but the song that we ended up listening to while planning this was "Subterraneans"