Turkey Book Talk episode #119  –  Magdalena Zaborowska, professor of literature at the University of Michigan, on her book “James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile” (Duke University Press)

The book looks at the great African American author’s extensive periods living and working in Istanbul from 1961 to 1971.

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