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Speculative Light

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another’s artistic values. This book brings together scholars, critics, and artists who examine how this friendship fundamentally shaped the pair's ideas about art and life.

Speculative Light

“This is a vibrant, timely, and vital collection of essays that illuminate how we can read James Baldwin through Beauford Delaney’s paintings and see Delaney’s paintings through Baldwin’s writing. Placing the lives and works of these two close friends side by side tells us much about kinship, intimacy, and craft, not only in relation to Delaney and Baldwin but in African American culture more broadly.” - Douglas Field, author of (Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me) “James Baldwin was most moving when recalling the aesthetic education he received from Beauford Delaney-who taught him both how to listen, ‘to hear [in Black music] what I had never dared or been able to hear,’ and how to see ‘and . . . trust what I saw.’ Speculative Light bears extraordinary witness to the lives of two men, devoted to their craft, moving always in the direction of wonder and uncertainty, buoyed by that loving and shared sense of attunement.” - Stephen Best, author of (None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life) "This book peers into an intimate relationship between two Black, queer men who grappled with the harsh lens of shame and found solace in their art and one another; two friends, platonic lovers, mentor and mentee, who knew each other in ways their voracious public could not. We owe much of Baldwin’s oeuvre to Delaney, and we owe it to Delaney to look again." - Jasmine Weber (Hyperallergic)

Snapshots

Featuring micro-essays inspired by a photograph from their personal archives, this collection offers a snapshot into the lives and interests of a diverse group of writers exploring the relationship between image and word.

God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin

He’s more alive than most of the living writers we know, his torch is still lit and cannot be passed. Nevertheless, we keep going to meet him, we keep letting him down from the pedestal just to send him back up there alone like our perfect black Sisyphus. What we say about him reveals us.

1. Susan , Bernofsky

'Hellseher im Kleinen'

Er lebte und schrieb am Rande der Gesellschaft, schockierte seine Boheme-Freunde in Berlin mit dem Besuch einer Dienerschule und entwickelte später in Bern einen urban-nomadischen Lebensstil, bevor er den Rest seines Lebens in einer Heil- und Pflegeanstalt verbrachte. Ob als Antiheld und romantischer Einzelgänger, als »Verlocker zur Freiheit« (Morgenstern) oder als »Hellseher im Kleinen« (Sebald) - Robert Walser wurde glühend verehrt und hat viele maßgeblich beeinflusst: Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin und Robert Musil ebenso wie Thomas Bernhard, Paul Nizon, Sibylle Lewitscharoff und Elfriede Jelinek. In ihrer sorgfältig recherchierten und reich bebilderten Biografie wirft Susan Bernofsky einen nuancierten Blick auf Walsers faszinierendes Leben und Werk. Gestützt auf neue Quellen, unbekannte Texte, Briefe und weitere biografische Dokumente lotet sie seinen Rang im literarischen Diskurs seiner Zeit aus wie auch die unbestrittene Relevanz seines Werks für die heutige. Vor allem aber gelingt ihr ein mitreißend erzähltes Buch, das auch diejenigen für Walser begeistert, für die er noch nicht Kultstatus hat.

1. Various Authors

DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval

Wes Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. His latest film is Asteroid City. Jacob "Jake" Perlin is a film programmer, distributor and publisher. He is the founding Artistic Director of Metrograph. His companies, The Film Desk and Film Desk Books, recently released Vengeance is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984) and No Fear No Die (Claire Denis, 1990), and new editions of Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel and Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau. Perlin also oversees Cinema Conservancy, a non-profit whose most recent release is James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973). He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and received a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his "Indispensable contributions to fi lm culture."