Author Colm Toibin on James Baldwin’s Interiority
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported, WNYC Studios. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, my name is Razia Iqbal. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to episode eight of Notes on a Native Son, a podcast about the writer James Baldwin. |
| 0:20.8 | This year, 2024, marks the 100th birth anniversary of a man unique in American letters. |
| 0:29.0 | He was many things to many people, novelist, essayist, activist, seer, icon. |
| 0:36.3 | For James Baldwin, though, such lists were meaningless. Who and what he was |
| 0:40.6 | and what is his legacy can't really be listed, but it can and perhaps should be found in his work. |
| 0:48.6 | He refused any attempt to box him in. This podcast tries to get close to the idea of getting to know Jimmy |
| 0:56.1 | Baldwin through his work and for those who love his words to return to them. |
| 1:05.1 | We've called it notes on a native son after one of Baldwin's most famous autobiographical essays notes of a native son. |
| 1:13.1 | That essay powerfully clarifies what he is and what America is on his terms. |
| 1:19.2 | In each episode, we invite a well-known figure to choose a special or significant James Baldwin passage. |
| 1:25.8 | The conversation that ensues tells us as much about Baldwin's story |
| 1:30.3 | as it does about the person who loves Jimmy, |
| 1:33.3 | as he was known to all who loved him. |
| 1:38.3 | Our guest on this episode of Notes on a Native Son |
| 1:41.3 | is the Irish award-winning writer, Column Tabine. |
| 1:45.0 | He is the author of 11 novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and Nora Webster. |
| 1:50.9 | He's also written essays, journalism and a book of poetry. |
| 1:54.9 | His work's been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, and he has won the Costa |
| 1:59.2 | Novel Award and the Impact Award. He writes regularly for |
| 2:03.4 | the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the New York Times and many other publications. |
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