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  1. Talking at the Gates
    A Life of James Baldwin
    Author: Campbell, James
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 2021 Edition -- I No Story, Ma -- II Lord, I Ain't No Stranger Now -- III A Severe Cross -- IV Tear This Building Down... more

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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 2021 Edition -- I No Story, Ma -- II Lord, I Ain't No Stranger Now -- III A Severe Cross -- IV Tear This Building Down -- V The Price of the Beat -- Afterword to the 2002 Edition: Campbell v. US Department of Justice -- Appendix: An Interview with Norman Mailer -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. By the time of his death in 1987, both his fiction and nonfiction works had achieved the status of modern classics. James Campbell knew James Baldwin for the last ten years of Baldwin's life. For Talking at the Gates, Campbell interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and professional associates and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. Campbell was the first biographer to obtain access to the large file that the FBI and other agencies had compiled on the writer. Examining Baldwin's turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King Jr., and others, this candid and original account portrays the life and work of a writer who held to the principle that ";the unexamined life is not worth living."; This new edition features a fresh introduction addressing recent developments in Baldwin's reputation and his return to a position he occupied in the early 1960s, when Life magazine called him ";the monarch of the current literary jungle."; It also contains a previously unpublished interview with Norman Mailer about Baldwin, which Campbell conducted in 1987

     
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  2. Syncopations
    Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark
    Author: Campbell, James
    Published: [2008]; ©2008
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. Campbell considers writers associated... more

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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
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    This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. Campbell considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Continuing his longterm engagement with African American authors, he offers an account of his legal battle with the FBI over James Baldwin's file and a new profile of Amiri Baraka. He also focuses on the Beat poets Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, as well as writers such as Edmund White and Thom Gunn. Campbell's concluding essay on his childhood in Scotland gracefully connects the book's autobiographical dots

     
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  3. Talking at the Gates
    A Life of James Baldwin
    Author: Campbell, James
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 2021 Edition -- I No Story, Ma -- II Lord, I Ain't No Stranger Now -- III A Severe Cross -- IV Tear This Building Down... more

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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 2021 Edition -- I No Story, Ma -- II Lord, I Ain't No Stranger Now -- III A Severe Cross -- IV Tear This Building Down -- V The Price of the Beat -- Afterword to the 2002 Edition: Campbell v. US Department of Justice -- Appendix: An Interview with Norman Mailer -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. By the time of his death in 1987, both his fiction and nonfiction works had achieved the status of modern classics. James Campbell knew James Baldwin for the last ten years of Baldwin's life. For Talking at the Gates, Campbell interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and professional associates and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. Campbell was the first biographer to obtain access to the large file that the FBI and other agencies had compiled on the writer. Examining Baldwin's turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King Jr., and others, this candid and original account portrays the life and work of a writer who held to the principle that ";the unexamined life is not worth living."; This new edition features a fresh introduction addressing recent developments in Baldwin's reputation and his return to a position he occupied in the early 1960s, when Life magazine called him ";the monarch of the current literary jungle."; It also contains a previously unpublished interview with Norman Mailer about Baldwin, which Campbell conducted in 1987

     
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