Notes of a Native Son
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. “A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review “Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time
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- Richard Wright wrote "Native Son" to which introduced me to James Baldwin via his essay "Notes Of A Native Son".
- There's a fantastic series of podcasts on great essays by David Runciman from the London Review of Books, which aren't always the ones you'd expect given the authors:
Michel de Montaigne, "Essays": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
David Hume, "Of Public Credit:": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One’s Own": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Simone Weil, "Human Personality": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Joan Didion, "The White Album": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
David Foster Wallace, "Up, Simba!": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Umberto Eco, "Thoughts on Wikileaks": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...
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