James Baldwin in Turkey: Film Screening and Talk NEW

"Turkey saved my life."—James Baldwin
You may have heard about Baldwin in Paris but apparently he was also transformed by his time in Turkey. Watch 30 minutes of rare and beautiful interview footage of Baldwin in Turkey, a country where he spent time on and off from 1961 to 1971, and find out more. Cora Fisher of the Brooklyn Public Library, co-curator of a recent exhibition about James Baldwin's sojourns in Turkey, will give a talk accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation. A question and answer period will follow.