New Yorker editor David Remnick speaks with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates,whose celebrated book Between the World and Me explores the persistence of violence against black Americans. Written as a letter to his adolescent son, Coates’s book takes direct inspiration from James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook, or ” an essay Baldwin addressed to his nephew. Coates talks approximately Baldwin’s lasting impact on his work,and tells Remnick why he’ll never embrace optimism.
Source: wnyc.org