The Brilliance of BALDWIN: A Treasure Hunt of a Life Revealed
NICHOLAS BOGGS in conversation with LIONEL FOSTER

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
31st Street & Barclay Street
Waverly Neighborhood

The New York Times named it a most anticipated book. Deemed a “monumental” biography by Zadie Smith and bearing witness to “his determination to leave something behind that would ultimately become our inheritance” by Lena Waithe, CityLit welcomes NICHOLAS BOGGS and his profound new work, Baldwin: A Love Story. The first major biography of iconic figure James Baldwin in over three decades brings Jimmy to life with a deeply intimate exploration of his personal and artistic relationships.

THE BALDWIN PRIZE, LIONEL FOSTER, joins Boggs in conversation about this work that shows for the first time “how Baldwin drew on complex structures within these relationships—geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic—and alchemized them into art that spoke truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history”. Baldwin, a contemplative examination and treasure hunt of a life revealed, magnifies our understanding of one of the major literary and cultural legends of our times.