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Baldwin writes with a command over the English language that is unparalleled by likely any other American writer. It is blistering, and deeply, intimately, terrifyingly honest. Just unbelievable banger after banger of lines.

This book says a whole lot but about very little.

“I must also write to you because you harvest discursive words and not the directness of my painting. I know that my phrases are crude, I write them with too much love, and that love makes up for their faults, but too much love is bad for the work.”