{"id":3474,"date":"2017-02-26T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2017-02-27T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:09:56","slug":"james-baldwin-and-the-zeitgeist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/02\/james-baldwin-and-the-zeitgeist.html","title":{"rendered":"James Baldwin, Film and the Zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SINCE the summer or fall, it’s struck me that a writer long considered the little brother — perhaps even the gay little brother — of black literature’s Big Three had become the essential artist of our time.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is my story on him, timed in part to the Oscar-nominated films Moonlight and I Am Not Your Negro, both of which are excellent.<\/p>\n

Update: Moonlight, of course, just won the Oscar for best picture. Director Barry Jenkins told me the film was inspired by Giovanni’s Room and The Fire Next Time. Great movie, and as much as I liked Manchester and La La Land, glad to see Moonlight recognized.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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