Blog

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin’s acclaimed 1974 novel of troubled young lovers in Harlem, was released as a film in 2018. It was one of the most popular and praised films of the year, and earned an Academy … Continued

Critics are raving about “I Am Not Your Negro,” the new film based on the writings of the legendary James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck. Now playing in cities all over the country, it shows Baldwin in many guises, … Continued

Never a Lovely So Real, Colin Asher’s “passionately partisan” reassessment of the life and work of Nelson Algren, is called “wonderfully readable” in The New Yorker. Asher recalls the greatness of this undervalued Chicago novelist, who gave voice to the … Continued

Three volumes of the great James Baldwin’s works have been issued by the Library of America: Early Novels and Stories and Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison; and Later Novels, edited by Darryl Pinckney.  And two other books have appeared: … Continued

Calliope author Nelson Algren is the subject of The End is Nothing, the Road Is All, a feature length documentary film made by Bullet Proof Films. Algren, one of America’s greatest writers, focused on the life of the marginalized inhabitants … Continued

William Styron’s non-fiction collection, My Generation, “places him squarely in the constellation of writers who transformed American literature after World War II,” says the New York Times Book Review. The collection includes essays, book reviews, and reportage. Calliope Author Readings … Continued

James Baldwin’s former home on New York’s Upper West Side is one of 6 buildings being considered for landmark status by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, as important sites in LGBT history. Baldwin bought the building in 1965 and did … Continued

NORMAN MAILER PRAISES CALLIOPE AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS In his Selected Letters (2014), Norman Mailer offers powerful praise for the Calliope authors James Jones and William Styron and the novels they read from. In Mailer’s list of the best fiction … Continued