Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body - The New Yorker 🔗 📷 🖼 ✍️ 📚 ⚫️ >“I think the contemporary world that has claimed him needs to read him more deeply. People read essential texts and they latch onto the rhetorical, and that’s easy enough to do. You know, Baldwin was a showman, too. But we forget that he was gay, and we forget that he was exiled, and we forget that he was an artist. All of the things that are important to me get marginalized. I think that that’s the real impetus for the show.”

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