![]() ![]() With "simmering warmth" ( The New York Times), Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin's house in Provence. ![]() My Soul Looks Back is her tribute to that fascinating social circle and their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. ![]() Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of Greenwich Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. ![]() In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties.James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" ( New York magazine)-in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. ![]()
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