James Baldwin, 1956 “Look”, said Giovanni, as we crossed the river. “This old whore, Paris, as she turns in bed, is very moving.” “I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home, not to that hotel, in one of the alleys of Paris, where the concierge barred the way with my unpaid bill; but …
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin, Vintage Books, 1974 “It says a lot about this country, because, of course, if all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.” ” . . . in the evening, just before everyone is locked up again, he looks at the others, he listens: what have …
Days Without End
Sebastian BARRY, Penguin Books, 2016 Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that …
the Books that Bind 