The year 2024 marks the centennial of the legendary James Baldwin. To celebrate, we will be reading his sprawling and personal memoir No Name in the Street. In striking and confessional detail, Baldwin chronicles his evolving consciousness during major historical events (like the murders of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King), and his violent reckoning with the American South. It’s a powerful chronicle of the sixties and early seventies with discussions on race that still inform our present reality. No Name in the Street was first published in 1972 as the fourth nonfiction title from Baldwin, who won many awards over his career and remains one of the most important Black writers of all time.
We will discuss No Name in the Street by James Baldwin on Wednesday, May 29th. You can find out who our guest will be by listening to our May 1st episode. If you’d like even more discussion around the book, consider joining The Stacks Pack on Patreon to participate in The Stacks’ monthly virtual book club.
LA’s indie bookstore Reparations Club offers you 10% off your copy of No Name in the Street via this link using the code STACKS10 at checkout! (Or get your copy of our May book on Bookshop.org or Amazon.)
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