Guardian, Nov 26, 1965. p.17

‘Graves in his Anecdotage’, Robert Nye.

Review of new fiction. Positive about Going to Meet the Man:

‘JB at his passionate and most honourable best, is a much more considerable proposition [than Robert Graves]. The eight stories collected in Going to Meet the Man documents a sensitivity towards other people which amounts, shaped by Baldwin’s creative intelligence, to an almost mythic courtesy towards life…GTMTM, fierce on the surface, is about a refusal to be fierce within: It rejects disgust, despair, fear, hate, and horror in the natural exercise of a compassion disturbing in its very kindness. A scorching generosity – that, it seems to me, is what Baldwin is about…No one, I think, is writing stories more humanly useful than the best ones here’.