tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431831292770024597.post1137704626875463219..comments2023-06-30T01:00:59.651-07:00Comments on Amy Alexander Community Forum: Must-See History: James Baldwin in San Francisco, 1963Amy Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10931164237439456648noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431831292770024597.post-81641527641188412082012-08-09T21:37:29.638-07:002012-08-09T21:37:29.638-07:00If you're ever at the Schomburg Center for Bla...If you're ever at the Schomburg Center for Black History in Harlem, go to the bottom floor and treat yourself to his collaborative coffee table book with Richard Avedon called Nothing Personal. It's Baldwin at his most abstract and most poetic (besides the poems he wrote in high school and later ridiculed). Also if you take the elevator up a few floors you can see his personal archive, which includes some beautiful samples of handwritten ideas (a few were on cocktail napkins) that later ended up in his book. You can see a few here: http://dreamofsafety.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-james-baldwin-archives-note-to-his.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com