Giovanni's Room

"I’m sure the president has read James Baldwin, but he may have missed “Giovanni’s Room” — a short novel of immeasurable sadness. That is the novel he should read — or reread, as the case may be — because it will strengthen his resolve to do everything in his power for gay rights."

"The same for James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. That's a book I go back to when I feel like I'm forgetting the importance of language."

""The White Album," by Joan Didion and "Giovanni's Room," by James Baldwin."

"There are formative books I loved as a teenager, like "Giovanni's Room" (James Baldwin)."

"My mother recommended it, and I was astonished by how powerful it is. And by how a prominent Black writer could claim the freedom to write a novel in which race doesn't figure at all."

"Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room""