Eddie Glaude Jr
Book ShamblesJames Baldwin is one of the most recommended and discussed authors on this podcast so this week’s guest is someone who literally wrote the book on Baldwin. Eddie Glaude is a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and his latest book is Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. he talks to Robin about Baldwin, race in America and what society needs to do to move forward, face up to its past.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Begin Again by Eddie Glaude Jr
Everything ever written by James Baldwin
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Student by Anton Chekov
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Others edited by Charles Fernyhough
Go Back to Where You Came From by Wajahat Ali
Milkman by Anna Burns
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
The work of James Joyce
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois
