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Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin
Writer Joelle Monique says reading James Baldwin might save your soul and she's 100% correct. Short stories, novels, essays, grocery lists, it doesn't matter. These stories aren't all excellent and I'm not sure I would call any of them great. Even Sonny's Blues is a little overrated but they're all still really, really good. Homosexuality, alienation, addiction, interracial relationships, identity crises, he deals with it all here. The two standouts here for me are This Morning, This Evening, So Soon and Going to Meet the Man. The former being a variation on a life similar to Baldwin's own but different and the latter a brutal, inhumane story about the cruelty and barbaric depths of depravity man is capable of. It's a very different story for Baldwin and told from a perspective completely foreign to most of his characters. Even though these stories fall slightly short of greatness, reading Baldwin is always perfection.