{"id":101122,"date":"2025-08-29T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101122\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:45:07","slug":"nicholas-boggs-new-book-is-baldwin-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101122\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Boggs&#8217; new book is &#8220;Baldwin: A Love Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Boggs, whose new book, &#8220;Baldwin: A Love Story,&#8221; offers a fresh, intimate portrait of James Baldwin. Drawing on letters, archives, and conversations, Boggs traces Baldwin\u2019s search for connection across Harlem, Paris, and beyond, revealing how love shaped his politics and prose.<\/p>\n<p>Boggs, a noted Baldwin scholar and co-editor of &#8220;Little Man, Little Man,&#8221; brings a critic\u2019s rigor and a storyteller\u2019s grace to this enduring icon. We\u2019ll talk about romance and kinship, chosen families, and why Baldwin\u2019s radical tenderness speaks so powerfully to our present moment.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome Nicholas Boggs to the RT this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Boggs, whose new book, &#8220;Baldwin: A Love Story,&#8221; offers a fresh, intimate portrait of James Baldwin. Drawing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-101122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}