That this view is just, that Baldwin is not the His exceptional polemic gifts as writer and as speaker in the civil rights movement have helped to fix that view relatively swiftly.
It is widely held that Baldwin's best work is done in nonfiction. Freshness from the mint is no test of quality, but neither is quality provided by scraping the past in response to an author's present popularity. The first two stories, "The Rockpile" and "The Outing," seem to be sketches for his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," Of eight stories, five were publishedīetween 19, and none of the others was, I hope, written subsequently. DecemGoing To Meet The Man By STANLEY KAUFFMANĪmes Baldwin's collection of short stories invites little new comment because it contains little new work.
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