I didn't know JB wrote a book about this! His prose is def in my top 5. Groundbreaking for the time. This article mentions him as a "big name" but I'd argue he should have been more famous
Baldwin was really a fascinating person. He traveled quite a bit around Europe, too, and wrote some of his most known work in Istanbul, which I always found an interesting juxtaposition to the way he is usually portrayed. I agree with his thought that’s it’s easier to view America from the outside. IIRC Fitzgerald wrote most of Gatsby while in France, which seems to confirm the idea. It’s a shame Baldwin isn’t more well-known.
It has also been my experience that it’s easier to view America from the outside. Though I find this excruciatingly painful to convey to folks that I know who have never lived any where else.
"The city became his on-and-off home throughout much of the 1960s." "Life was safer and easier: unlike in the US, he didn’t have to worry about being harassed by the police or being refused service at restaurants. “"
I was incredibly disappointed they didn't film in Atlanta. Though most of the season takes place in the Atlanta metro, it's very obviously filmed elsewhere. None of the filming locations actually resemble Atlanta. As an Atlanta resident, I found it uncanny and jarring.
It's doubly strange considering Atlanta has generous film subsidies and tax breaks, making it one of the nation's top filming locations. They might have saved money shooting here. Stranger Things and a host of other Netflix shows are based here.
I don't normally nitpick about something like this, but it frequently took me out of the story.
One of my favourite quotes from The Evidence of Things Not Seen:
"The dream of safety can reach culmination or climax only in the nightmare orgasm of genocide."
There's a preamble to it, but it's an incredibly powerful idea to me. We live in a radically unsafe universe and our death is inevitable. Safety is a delusion.
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[+] [-] acqq|5 years ago|reply
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-20-850311...
[+] [-] keiferski|5 years ago|reply
https://www.theguideistanbul.com/james-baldwin/
[+] [-] Quequau|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] acqq|5 years ago|reply
"The city became his on-and-off home throughout much of the 1960s." "Life was safer and easier: unlike in the US, he didn’t have to worry about being harassed by the police or being refused service at restaurants. “"
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[+] [-] echelon|5 years ago|reply
It's doubly strange considering Atlanta has generous film subsidies and tax breaks, making it one of the nation's top filming locations. They might have saved money shooting here. Stranger Things and a host of other Netflix shows are based here.
I don't normally nitpick about something like this, but it frequently took me out of the story.
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[+] [-] scandox|5 years ago|reply
"The dream of safety can reach culmination or climax only in the nightmare orgasm of genocide."
There's a preamble to it, but it's an incredibly powerful idea to me. We live in a radically unsafe universe and our death is inevitable. Safety is a delusion.
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