To mark Baldwin’s centenary, the Authors Guild Foundation invites you to join a conversation featuring some of our most exciting writers, scholars, and essayists. Tickets are required for all sessions and are available for a limited time. authorsguild.org/events/readi... - ThreadSky

authorsguild.bsky.social • 34 days ago

To mark Baldwin’s centenary, the Authors Guild Foundation invites you to join a conversation featuring some of our most exciting writers, scholars, and essayists.

Tickets are required for all sessions and are available for a limited time.

https://authorsguild.org/events/reading-james-baldwin-online-literary-seminar/

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authorsguild.bsky.social•6 days ago

In this session, Vinson Cunningham discusses Another Country with a special focus on the book’s narration—its grieving, furious, restless voice—and how it can be understood (fittingly for the child preacher Baldwin) as an extended oratorical performance.

https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-7-vinson-cunningham/

authorsguild.bsky.social•10 days ago

Rachel Cohen began writing about Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin more than twenty years ago. In this session, Cohen looks closely at Delaney and Baldwin's lifelong friendship, including the huge number of portraits Delaney painted of his friend.

https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-6-rachel-cohen/

authorsguild.bsky.social•16 days ago

In this session, Viet Thanh Nguyen will explore No Name in the Street, Baldwin’s first book after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If The Fire Next Time was prophecy, No Name in the Street was the reckoning.

Get your tickets! https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-5-viet-thanh-nguyen/

authorsguild.bsky.social•18 days ago

In this session, @wralpheubanks.bsky.social and Eddie Glaude, Jr. explore the lasting impact of Notes of a Native Son, a book that shows how Baldwin provides light and understanding to his readers and meets them where they are.

Get your tickets now! https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-4-w-ralph-eubanks-eddie-glaude-jr/

authorsguild.bsky.social•20 days ago

In this talk, featuring one of Baldwin’s most famous works, “Sonny’s Blues,” author Imani Perry connects Baldwin’s ideas on the Blues with her own, exploring, as she does in her new book, Black in Blues.

https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-3-imani-perry/

authorsguild.bsky.social•23 days ago

Colm Tóibín will engage w/ the tone & style of Go Tell It on the Mountain, its narrative structure & its focus on the past as haunting & strangely present in the lives of a generation who came north in the Great Migration.

Space is limited so grab your tickets NOW! https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-2-colm-toibin/

authorsguild.bsky.social•27 days ago

In our 1st session, Jesse McCarthy will examine one of Baldwin’s most famous pieces of literary criticism, Everybody’s Protest Novel alongside passages from Henry James’s The Art of Fiction.

Space is limited so grab your tickets NOW! https://authorsguild.org/event/reading-james-baldwin-session-1-jesse-mccarthy/

lilyrugo.bsky.social•3 days ago

bummed I missed the special all-sessions tickets!

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