Then the pandemic hit and Glaude’s publication date was moved to Aug. That account - weaving biography, literary criticism and social criticism with a thread of memoir - was originally scheduled to come out on April 24. I needed to work through my own rage, my own despair, and offer an account of this moment.” In a phone interview, Glaude says: “I went back to my apartment and started writing furiously. Glaude describes the incident in the introduction to “Begin Again”: “One officer had his knee in the man’s back the others twisted his arms.” Within an hour of his arrival, he witnessed a horrific scene at a train station that changed the trajectory of his book: Four white policemen piled on top of a distraught Black man. Baldwin said the best way to think about America is not to be in America.” Hurricane Maria interfered with this plan, so Glaude headed to Heidelberg, Germany. Thomas, figuring: “If I’m going to write a book on Baldwin, I need to be out of the country. While on sabbatical from Princeton University, where he is a professor of African-American studies, Glaude rented an apartment in St. A year went by and I hadn’t written a sentence.” 5 on the hardcover nonfiction list, as an intellectual biography of James Baldwin: “But then I ran into this wall. says he first envisioned “ Begin Again,” now at No.
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