Shirley Toulson, ‘Other People’s Skins’, Jan 07, 1966. Tribune, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 13.

Review of E.R Braithwaite’s novel Choice of Straws and Baldwin’s short story collection Going to Meet the Man.

Toulson compares the work of the two writers and describes how Baldwin’s short story collection in comparison to Braithwaite’s novel: ‘give the feel the whole situation, even when it is seen through one person’s eyes. The stories in this collection have in common an almost Hardeyesque sense of a doomed universe, of individuals caught up in an inescapable destiny of inherited prejudice and guilt, which does not necessarily only concern race’.

Shirley Toulson obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/16/shirley-toulson-obituary