Goings on
Two entries on one day! I resent having Reaganmania be the first thing on this page so am re-populating with another post about ME. ME ME ME!
I just read If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Any time I read his stuff I just want to go and devour anything he wrote. This book was written in 1973, but he's managed to capture race, policing, incarceration, love, family, and gender in this timeless and human way. There's nothing "identity politic" or painfully clever about his novel or prose. It's just brilliant and real. "Hits you like a truck!" "Powerful!" "Emotional!" "FIVE STARS!" Oh wait...those would be the HARRY POTTER REVIEWS!
I cannot believe I haven't seen it yet. It's a disgrace. No wonder I am condemmed to a life of mundane mugglehood.