James Baldwin© Jannelly 2021 In an excerpt from The Queer Bible, the celebrated novelist behind Rainbow Milk extols a fellow writer: James Baldwin June 09, 2021 The thing that strikes me most about Baldwin – now that I have access to every clip of his speeches and interviews, now that I’ve read all but one of his novels, now that I’ve been floored by my own reflection in his essays – is his courage, and his confidence in his own mind. He did not go to college. He knew he was brilliant and worth saving by something other than God; he left New York lest it killed him, and fled to Paris...