"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin *****

• US author
• Originally published 1963
• Epigraph:  "God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!"
• Review:   I am not the first, nor will I be the last to exhort the writing of James Baldwin.  His prose is profound and passionate at the same time. As a white woman, I, of course, felt uncomfortable and unsettled as well I should, as I read this.  There is a solid thread of hope in the letter and the essay in this collection, which is what kept me reading.  I can only hope that if he were writing to his nephew today, Baldwin would be able to see some change.