The Private Life: On James Baldwin By Colm Tóibín August 2, 2024

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óibíin a mode that would not be macho or snide—writing in the mother tongue rather than the father tongue.óibíI want to do the transition into the next part of my life in a smarter way than I did the transition into young womanhood.

óibíWhen language is in this hyperalert state—the most ready image is a boxer hopping from foot to foot—you can see every gesture.óibíThe way they managed to be practically omnipresent yet not really here at all was continually disquieting.óibíshes doing all this weird stuff with temporal inversion and weird slips of address in The House in Paris.

óibíDid it cross your mind at any stage to use these notes for something more weighty and analytical? Im so glad you didnt! It means as a reader I get to have those thoughts.óibíBy which I dont mean we forever need to be rebelliously defending or promoting the female body as abject—though thats not a bad thing to do—but we need to find ways of telling the truth of our experiences as bodies.

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