Giovanni’s Room

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Author

James Baldwin

Year

1956

Category

Literary fiction

Vibe

Paris, shame, desire, and one room that gets way too small

My take

This is the one I don’t read in public because it hits too clean—Baldwin needs like eight pages to do what most of us need a career for, and the ending still lands like a punch you see coming and can’t dodge.