James Baldwin’s Another Country [x] Harsh Readers Circle

Set in the “bohemian” milieux of late 1950s New York (Harlem and Greenwich Village) and France, James Baldwin’s Another Country is underpinned by themes of 20th-century Black American life, music, sexuality, gender, and freedom in expatriation. This 1962 novel, perhaps not as well known as his other writing, deals with the way race and sexuality impact a cadre of “artistic” men and women, their intimate relationships, growth as people, success, and artistic lives. (There will be cute snacks at this gathering.)