A Good Influence: Writers on the Authors and Texts that Influenced Them
[by Meredith Wiggins] The pleasures of Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris (2000) are many and vast, but one of the most prominent is the chance to follow along as main character Eden, a would-be writer, attempts to grapple with the literary legacy of James Baldwin, whose writing inspired her to move to Paris. The novel is rich with references to Baldwin and his body […]
