Join Spenser on September 14th at 3pm to discuss James Baldwin’s “Go Tell it on the Mountain” for our Classics Book Club. Purchase the book here and sign up below. If you want to listen, purchase through libro.fm and support us there.

“One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).

Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountainis the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."