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Soon to be published by Dial Press is another Baldwin book, based mostly on a 20,000-word New Yorker essay. It shows Baldwin as the most bitterly eloquent voice of the American Negro. Yet it also shows him as one who speaks less for the Negro than to the white-and it is in that sense that he is most compelling...
...these in abundance. Long before it was permitted in liberal circles, Macdonald was an outspoken antiCommunist. Like George Orwell, he directed his fiercest fire at his friends-or ex-comrades-on the left. Since Politics folded, Macdonald has been a busy man-about-the-arts, contributing to The New Yorker and the "little" magazines, acting as advisor to Encounter, most recently serving as movie critic for Esquire. This collection is drawn from these years, and if they lack the wartime anger that gave vigor to his political essays, they are more stylish. Macdonald is equipped with enough scholarly authority...
...York newspaper news services; their familiar bylines continued to appear out of town. Editions of New York pa pers published beyond New York, such as the Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted a street survey, discov ered he missed the weather forecast, TV listings, movie and theater listings, the stock tables, schedules of athletic events, and the news-in just about...
...Cowan replies: This debate has gotten quite far away from my original article. There, I tried to summarize Baldwin's New Yorker essay, to point out that his white readers, because of the way their lives are organized, would have great difficulty in understanding or accepting the terms of his argument; and finally to point out that Baldwin's effort to state an extremely important case time and time again might ultimately conflict with his efforts to treat other, related subjects both in essays and in his novels...
Besides serving as Leverett's senior tutor, Gill has been head tutor in the University's largest non-compulsory course, Economics 1, and has written short stories for the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly...