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My website has published a superb short story by our culture editor, Simon Korner, together with James Baldwin's story, 'Going to meet the man'. Although I have read some Baldwin, I wasn't prepared for the impact it made on me. I'm still in a bit of a state of shock. Both stories are really worth reading.
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Summer 1970. A middle-class English boy, worried about his parents' marriage, is wrested into a far darker world when he reads the account of a lynching in a book by the Black American writer James Baldwin. He understands then that he will never escape the responsibility imposed by this terrible knowledge.</span></span>
<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">James Baldwin's classic story, first published in 1948, is reproduced below the story by Simon Korner.</span></span>
To read both stories, click here: "GOING TO MEET THE MAN"
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Summer 1970. A middle-class English boy, worried about his parents' marriage, is wrested into a far darker world when he reads the account of a lynching in a book by the Black American writer James Baldwin. He understands then that he will never escape the responsibility imposed by this terrible knowledge.</span></span>
<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">James Baldwin's classic story, first published in 1948, is reproduced below the story by Simon Korner.</span></span>
To read both stories, click here: "GOING TO MEET THE MAN"