James Baldwin’s America, Love, and Learning on Radio Book Club

What can James Baldwin’s writing show us about today’s civil rights movement? The human condition? Or love and responsibility? On the latest Radio Book Club, hosts go deep into these prescient themes with the novels and writers of the past and present who evoke them. Hosts are Julia Buckwalter and Shari Zollinger from Back of Beyond Books and Jessie Magleby from Grand County Public Library. Tune in for tons of literary reviews and recommendations.

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Julia’s Reviews + Mentions

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

Crossings by Alex Landragin 

Faithful by Alice Hoffman

Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

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Jessie’s Reviews + Mentions

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

There, There by Tommy Orange

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

Receptor by Alan Glynn

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Shari’s Reviews + Mentions

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

This Desert Hides Nothing: Selections from the Work of Ellen Meloy with Photographs by Stephen Strom by Ellen Meloy and Stephen Strom

Air Mail by Amy Irvine and Pam Houston