Swimming upstream: a conspiracy against cultivating talent
Beirut-based artists expose a cruel world
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff
Saturday, February 26, 2005
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"Any writer," the novelist James Baldwin once said, "feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent." Baldwin's response, in such books as "Another Country" and "Giovanni's Room," was to depict his struggles with that world in searing and impassioned prose.
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