James Baldwin with Quincy Troupe (interview date 1987)
SOURCE: "The Last Interview," in James Baldwin: The Legacy, edited by Quincy Troupe, Simon and Schuster, 1989, pp. 186-212.
[In the following interview, Baldwin discusses his relationships, his writing, other writers, and America.]
[Baldwin]: It all comes back now.
[Troupe]: When did you first meet Miles?
Oh, a long time ago, on West Seventy-seventh Street at his house.
What were the circumstances?
I'm trying to remember, I was living on West End...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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