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My review of Giovanni’s Room for the @tenderphilosophia book club took an unexpectedly personal turn. “I’ve always had complicated feelings about the idea of home. I’ve never thought of a particular place as home, and I think it’s because I didn’t grow up in my home country, and even in this new country, I didn’t have what locals would call a “traditional” education. I grew up attending an international school that had a mostly American culture. It was as if I grew up wrapped up in my own b... Giovanni's Room, International School, Book Club, Growing Up, Hold On, Things To Think About, Education, Turn Ons, In This Moment

My review of Giovanni’s Room for the @tenderphilosophia book club took an unexpectedly personal turn. “I’ve always had complicated feelings about the idea of home. I’ve never thought of a particular place as home, and I think it’s because I didn’t grow up in my home country, and even in this new country, I didn’t have what locals would call a “traditional” education. I grew up attending an international school that had a mostly American culture. It was as if I grew up wrapped up in my own…

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In November, 1948, at the age of twenty-four, James Baldwin moved to Paris. Giovanni's Room, Iconic Pictures, Moving To Paris, James Baldwin, Paris Photography, Magnum Photos, Page Turner, Cultural Events, Old Photographs

This piece is drawn from the introduction to a new edition of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room,’’ by James Baldwin, which is out from Everyman’s Library, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Group, on March 1st. Read Edwidge Danticat on ‘‘Go Tell It on the Mountain.’’ James Baldwin’s essay “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,”

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