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Books by Colm Tóibín
Quotes from Colm Tóibín's books, and about them
On James Baldwin on Go Tell It on the Mountain : “I read James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain just after my eighteenth birthday”On James Baldwin on Giovanni's Room : “James Baldwin's second novel Giovanni's Room, published in 1956, was, like Forster's Maurice, written in a time when homosexuality was not merely forbidden...”On James Baldwin on Maurice : “like Forster's Maurice, written in a time when homosexuality was not merely forbidden or disapproved of, but also strangely invisible”On James Baldwin on Notes of a Native Son : “he brought, he wrote in "Notes of a Native Son," "a special attitude" to lofty company”On James Baldwin on De Profundis : “Oscar Wilde's De Profundis was written under strange circumstances”On James Baldwin on Another Country : “In his review of James Baldwin's third novel, Another Country, Lionel Trilling asked...”On James Baldwin on A Question of Identity : “In his essay "A Question of Identity," written in 1954, James Baldwin wrote about the Paris that would inspire Giovanni's Room”On James Baldwin on Everybody's Protest Novel : “the following year Baldwin published an essay in Zero called "Everybody's Protest Novel"”On James Baldwin on The Secret Sharer : “Joseph Conrad created his doubled characters in "The Secret Sharer"”On James Baldwin on Ulysses : “When Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses is asked what a nation is, he replies...”
Authors Colm Tóibín's books mention
James Baldwin (19): On James Baldwin mentions Go Tell It on the Mountain , Giovanni's Room , Notes of a Native Son , Another Country , A Question of Identity , Everybody's Protest Novel , Sonny's Blues , Alas, Poor Richard , The Rockpile , The Fire Next Time , Evidence of Things Not Seen , Going to Meet the Man , The Outing , As Much Truth as One Can Bear , Notes for a Hypothetical Novel , The Harlem Ghetto , The White Problem , This Morning, This Evening, So Soon , Nobody Knows My Name Richard Wright (6): On James Baldwin mentions Man of All Work , High Tide in Harlem , Black Boy , Native Son , American Hunger , I Chose Exile Norman Mailer (4): On James Baldwin mentions Advertisements for Myself , The Armies of the Night , Miami and the Siege of Chicago , The Executioner's Song Henry James (3): On James Baldwin mentions The Ambassadors , The Golden Bowl , The Jolly Corner Joan Didion (3): On James Baldwin mentions Blue Nights , Salvador , The Year of Magical Thinking Barack Obama (2): On James Baldwin mentions The Audacity of Hope , Dreams from My Father Ernest Hemingway (2): On James Baldwin mentions The Sun Also Rises , For Whom the Bell Tolls James Joyce (2): On James Baldwin mentions Ulysses , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Weldon Johnson (2): On James Baldwin mentions Lift Every Voice and Sing , Black Manhattan Louis Simpson (2): On James Baldwin mentions To the Western World , Riverside Drive Cheryl Greenberg (1): On James Baldwin mentions "Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression Countee Cullen (1): On James Baldwin mentions To France Derek Walcott (1): On James Baldwin mentions The Schooner Flight E. M. Forster (1): On James Baldwin mentions Maurice Eavan Boland (1): On James Baldwin mentions The Lost Art of Letter Writing Eldridge Cleaver (1): On James Baldwin mentions Soul on Ice Farah Jasmine Griffin (1): On James Baldwin mentions Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Novel George S. Schuyler (1): On James Baldwin mentions Black No More John Howard Griffin (1): On James Baldwin mentions Black Like Me Joseph Conrad (1): On James Baldwin mentions The Secret Sharer Oscar Wilde (1): On James Baldwin mentions De Profundis Roy Campbell (1): On James Baldwin mentions Choosing a Mast T. S. Eliot (1): On James Baldwin mentions Tradition and the Individual Talent V. S. Naipaul (1): On James Baldwin mentions The Return of Eva Peron W. B. Yeats (1): On James Baldwin mentions Cuchulain Comforted William Gardner Smith (1): On James Baldwin mentions The Stone Face