Melvin Hinton reads James Baldwin’s essay, Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare
Madison’s Melvin Hinton reads this wonderful essay and then recounts his personal meetings and conversations with the great writer himself.
Last summer Melvin read Fredrick Douglass’ speech, What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July? for our podcast project. And now Wisconsin Public Radio has just acquired the broadcast rights to Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize lecture and Melvin has been asked to record that.
We are working on more material by James Baldwin (and Fredrick Douglass), so watch our Facebook page!
Thanks to the Madison Arts Commission for help with funding our Podcast Project.
A Baldwin bibliography:
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (semi-autobiographical novel; 1953)
- The Amen Corner (play; 1954)
- Notes of a Native Son (essays; 1955)
- Giovanni’s Room (novel; 1956)
- Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (essays; 1961)
- Another Country (novel; 1962)
- A Talk to Teachers (essay; 1963)
- The Fire Next Time (essays; 1963)
- Blues for Mister Charlie (play; 1964)
- Going to Meet the Man (stories; 1965)
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (novel; 1968)
- No Name in the Street (essays; 1972)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (novel; 1974)
- The Devil Finds Work (essays; 1976)
- Just Above My Head (novel; 1979)
- Jimmy’s Blues (poems; 1983)
- The Evidence of Things Not Seen (essays; 1985)
- The Price of the Ticket (essays; 1985)
- The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (essays; 2010)
- Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems (poems; 2014)
James Baldwin’s essay – Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare