The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book that was published in 1962, but speaks with incredible clarity to the events of this month and to the essential question that our country has never been able to resolve - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Stuff we Mentioned

• James Baldwin in Turkey - Photographs by Sedat Pakay at the Northwest African-American Museum

• The Paris Review Interview with James Baldwin

• Baldwin vs. Buckley

• The Fire This Time

• I Am Not Your Negro

• Between the World and Me

• White Rage

• White Trash

• The New Jim Crow

• Southern Poverty Law Center

• Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

• ACLU People Power

What's Up Next

The Bridge by the poet Hart Crane

What Song Did We Choose?

We didn't really choose a song to go with the book this time, but the song that we ended up listening to while planning this was "Subterraneans"