Paul’s Reviews > James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations > Status Update

“It is very hard to describe that feeling... What struck me was the fact that she was singing, as you say, about a disaster, which had almost killed her, and she accepted it and was going beyond it. The fantastic understatement in it. It is the way I want to write, you know. When she says, “My house fell down, and I can’t live there no more”—it is a great... a great sentence. A great achievement.” (3)