This is a mystery which can terrify and immobilize a woman, and it is always the key to her deepest distress. It is very much harder, and it takes much longer, for a man to grow up, and he could never do it at all without women. But men have no secrets, except from women, and never grow up in the way women do.

It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. John the Divine.“Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. If Beale Street Could Talk is included in the Library of America volume James Baldwin: Later Novels.Ĭlose Conversations is a program of the Congregation of Saint Saviour at the Cathedral Church of St. The complete January 22nd talk can be viewed here. “The sharper edges of the book are not always represented in the movie.”īellot was joined at “Interpreting James Baldwin Today” by Nicholas Boggs, co-editor and author of the introduction to a new edition of Baldwin’s children’s book Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood and author and journalist Elizabeth Howard, the inaugural Madeleine L’Engle Fellow at the Cathedral of St. While Bellot commended Jenkins’s adaptation of Beale Street as “very moving,” she also highlighted some telling differences between it and the novel. John the Divine, Bellot called If Beale Street Could Talk “Baldwin’s masterpiece,” and praised its “tender depiction of black people in love,” adding, “You don’t see that as often as you might think.”

Speaking on January 22nd at “Close Conversations: Interpreting James Baldwin Today,” a public program of the Cathedral of St. The novel was the subject of a noteworthy talk given in New York City earlier this winter by Gabrielle Bellot, a staff writer for Literary Hub whose work has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, Tin House, and Guernica. Regina King won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the film at last month’s Academy Awards. James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk has been enjoying renewed visibility lately, a trend that only seems set to continue in the wake of Barry Jenkins’s recent movie version. Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk

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