100 Years of James Baldwin
The Culture Desk Podcast
(via The New York Times)
Produced by John White
Edited by Wendy Dorr
Engineered by Diane Wong
Featuring Robert Jones Jr.
Robert Jones Jr.’s first novel, The Prophets, was a best seller. But his path to becoming a writer was not easy or obvious. It was not until he decided to go back to college at 31 that he encountered, for the first time, James Baldwin’s “radically honest” writing. That fateful introduction produced a fundamental change in Jones’s life and gave him a new sense of purpose. Here, he remembers Baldwin and the essay that changed everything.
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