Matt Snediker’s Reviews > Another Country > Status Update

“And the summer came, the New York summer, which is like no summer anywhere. The heat and the noise began their destruction of nerves and sanity and private lives and love affairs. The air was full of baseball scores and bad news and treacly songs; and the streets and bars were full of hostile people, made more hostile by the heat.”

Sometimes this dude is so good I get actually, bodily, mad at him.

“For all policemen were bright enough to know who they were working for, and they were not working, anywhere in the world, for the powerless.”

Shit yeh bruther I didn’t think we’d get some stray bullets in the ACAB direction but ofc, if it came any way, it would come as effortlessly, with as much infinite wisdom, with as much certainty as this quote. He’s so fuckin good dude oh my GOD.

“I know that I am not about to be bugged by any more white jokers who still can’t figure out whether I’m human or not. If they don’t know, baby, sad on them, and I hope they drop dead slowly, in great pain.”
“That’s not very Christian,” he said, lightly.
“It’s the best I can do. I learned all my Christianity from white folks.”

Baldwin’s dialogue is so exacting, so sharp, so subtly poetic.

“The number ended and Ida stepped off the stage, wet and triumphant, the applause crashing about her ears like foam.”

He just doesn’t quit with the purple stuff, I swear