Nicholas Buccola in Conversation with Tony Wolk, James Baldwin Celebration
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesNicholas Buccola in Conversation with Tony Wolk, Discussing the Baldwin/Buckley Debate of 1965 Please join us at 7 pm on Thursday, January 16th, as we cap off our year-long celebration of James Baldwin with a conversation between Nicholas Buccola, author of the recently published book The Fire is Upon Us, and Tony Wolk, professor of literature at Portland State University. Buccola’s book focuses on the historic televised debate in 1965 between James Baldwin, civil rights firebrand, and William F. Buckley Jr., the father of modern conservatism. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro." The Fire is Upon Us tells the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, the controversies…