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Film, Video Ayana Mathis and Viet Thanh Nguyen: James Baldwin's Centennial

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Title

  • Ayana Mathis and Viet Thanh Nguyen: James Baldwin's Centennial

Summary

  • James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote some of the most influential American books of the 20th Century, including "Another Country," "Giovanni's Room" and "Notes of a Native Son." Ayana Mathis ("The Unsettled") and Viet Thanh Nguyen ("A Man of Two Faces") discussed the influence of Baldwin's work on writers of all stripes with Eric Deggans at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • August 24, 2024

Running Time

  • 1 hours 13 minutes 18 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Ayana Mathis and Viet Thanh Nguyen: James Baldwin's Centennial. 2024. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11483/>.