Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained and shaped us. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.
Robert Jones Jr. is an author and activist.
James Baldwin was right: The Devil Finds Work.
Jourdain Searles is a writer, comedian and podcaster.
intro w/ 7 books the color purple (alice walker) play it as it lays (joan didion) playing in the dark (toni morrison) their eyes were watching god (ZNH) the devil finds work (james baldwin) the bloody chamber (angela carter) bastard out of carolina (dorothy allison) https://t.co/mSy9OXjVnt
We're all the contemplatives of an ongoing apocalypse. —Etel Adnan
A list of books I reread this year: Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (x2); Etel Adnan, Journey to Mt. Tam, Of Cities & Women, Sitt Marie Rose; Hilton Als, The Women; James Baldwin, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work; Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (x2)
"The best essayist in this country--a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country."
--The New York Times Book Review
"It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again."
--The Christian Science Monitor
"He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices."
--The Nation
"A provocative discussion."
--Saturday Review