James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man set against a backdrop of

set against a backdrop of scandal

forcing a rearrangement of global governance

Trying to change the world and maybe transcend it

a country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens with Middle Eastern roots

fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man set against a backdrop ofHere, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), tells the story, rooted in Baldwin's own experience, of a preacher's son coming of age in 1930's Harlem. Ten years in the writing, its exploration of religious, sexual, and generational conflicts was