One of Baldwin’s most famous novels, Giovanni’s Room is an exquisitely written tale that I loved as soon as I started reading it, and that I have thought about ever since finishing it.
Having spent the first half of 2022 reading books in something of a haphazard manner, as the second half of the year approached, I wrote down the list of books I wanted to cross off before the year had ended, and so, one grey and miserable afternoon in Bondi – of which, there have been many – I settled in to start Giovanni’s Room. It took a little over a year after recording the podcast with Cole until I would find myself in possession of a book of Baldwin’s – thanks to my friend David Wade – who lent me his copy of Giovanni’s Room. Cole said that he came to Baldwin’s work ‘embarrassingly late in life’, and I remember making a mental note to read Baldwin sooner rather than later. I think I first came across James Baldwin when author Cole Brown picked The Fire Next Time as one of his Desert Island Books.
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