Noah Damski’s Reviews > Another Country > Status Update

I’m stupid, but when a book gets too long, I just get tired. I finished the earlier James Baldwin books because they were all about this length, but I’m only halfway done with this one. I’m taking a break and going back to Joan Didion.

“the secrets of everyone were only expressed when the person laboriously dragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world’s experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished.”

The James Baldwin train carries on, book #4 now. He has returned to being “semi-autobiographical,” but to reflect a very different era of his life as was in “Go Tell It on the Mountain.”