James Baldwin with Quincy Troupe (interview date 1987)


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...

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