Baldwin mentioned in a review of a set of records in which leading American writers read extracts from their own works
J.D.S Haworth, ‘The Voice of the Writer’, 05, February 1965, Tribune, Vol 29, Issue 6, p. 15.
Review of a ‘set of records has just been imported from America for sale over here in which leading American writers read extracts from their own works’, including ‘James Baldwin reading from Giovanni’s Room and Another Country’. Haworth’s review compares JB’s reading with that of Phillip Roth, John Updike, and William Styron’s. He writes dismissively that: ‘James Baldwin perhaps shows the deepest self-absorption in these readings, that characteristically vibrant emotionalism of his, frequently displayed even in the commonplace of a press interview, is here to the full aiming precisely for what Henry James called “perception at the pitch of passion.”’
No Author, ‘Without Comment’, (1965, Mar 05), Tribune, Volume 29, Issue 10 p. 2.
Quote from commentator Robert Pitman about JB, featured in ‘Without Comment’ section of the magazine.