James Baldwin’s Another Country: Bookmarked

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, James Baldwin’s Another Country is a novel of sexual, racial, political, and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality.

In her volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author and essayist Kim McLarin talks about how her the parameters and scope of her work have been influenced by this classic Baldwin novel.

Kim McLarin is author of the essay collection, Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life, and the critically-acclaimed novels Taming It Down, Meeting of the Waters, and Jump at the Sun, and a memoir, Divorce Dog: Motherhood, Men, & Midlife. Her work has been honored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, the Barnes & Noble Discover Program, the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, among other organizations McLarin’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, The Washington Post, Slate, The Root and other publications. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Associated Press. McLarin appears regularly on the Emmy-Award winning show Basic Black, Boston’s long-running television program devoted to African-American themes. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston, and a member of the board of PEN New England.