{"title":"New Arrivals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest additions to Thebaldwinroom. 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But by the late 1960s and ’70s many regarded Baldwin as being out of sync with the political and social currents transforming America: too integrationist for Black Arts Movement writers and others on the Left, yet too “pessimistic” for many white readers, and as a result his later novels have never received the consideration given his earlier fiction. Sober in outlook but ambitious in scope, these works show Baldwin responding with his signature passion—for music, for justice, for life—and searching intelligence to the new realities of a rapidly changing cultural landscape, as the Movement era gives way to the age of identity politics that we still live in today. This culminating volume in the Library of America edition of his fiction illustrates how Baldwin continues to be relevant in twenty-first-century America, especially in his dramatizing of the unequal treatment of black men by the police and the justice system, his nuanced depictions of the black family, and his explorations of sexuality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thebaldwinroom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47434660905109,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/1045\/5957\/files\/9781598534542_1147c.jpg?v=1781203710"},{"product_id":"digital-product","title":"The James Baldwin Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher’s son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1955), James Baldwin established himself as a prophetic voice of his era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it. One of the great modern prose stylists, he applied his passion, wit, and relentlessly probing intelligence to the fault lines and false fronts of American society while remaining true to his early credo: “One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE JAMES BALDWIN COLLECTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected Essays (LOA #98)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Devil Finds Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eother essays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarly Novels \u0026amp; Stories (LOA #97)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing to Meet the Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (including \"Sonny's Blues\")\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLater Novels (LOA #272)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Above My Head\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited by Toni Morrison (#97 \u0026amp; 98) and Darrly Pinckney (#272), each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Baldwin's life and career, and detailed notes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thebaldwinroom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47435123654805,"sku":null,"price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/1045\/5957\/files\/9781598537932_6f2c3.jpg?v=1781211038"}],"url":"https:\/\/thebaldwinroom.com\/collections\/new-arrivals.oembed","provider":"Thebaldwinroom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}