Monday, October 16, 2023

James Baldwin’s outlines and doodles

From Jillian Hess’s Noted, a Substack devoted to notebooks and note-taking: James Baldwin’s outlines and doodles.

Related reading
Some OCA James Baldwin posts (Pinboard)

comments: 2

Fresca said...

Thanks for the link--but, oh, I wish we could see more of Baldwin's drawings/doodles!
Too bad they can't be photo'd.

This quote from Baldwin reminds me of your other post this morning--("finding out what you don’t want to know")--the landlord killing a six-year-old and stabbing the child's mother because he hated Muslims:
"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know,
what you don’t want to find out.
But something forces you to anyway."

Michael Leddy said...

Oh yeah. Writing — and reading — to find out.