{"id":9517,"date":"2023-03-29T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2023-07-21T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:01:11","slug":"podcast-james-baldwin-the-magpie-years-is-a-journey-through-baldwins-days-as-a-teenage-prodigy-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/podcast-james-baldwin-the-magpie-years-is-a-journey-through-baldwins-days-as-a-teenage-prodigy-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: \u201cJames Baldwin: The Magpie Years\u201d Is A Journey Through Baldwin\u2019s Days As A Teenage Prodigy In NYC<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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James Baldwin: The Magpie Years, 1940-1942 <\/em><\/strong>is a newly released podcast that takes listeners through James Baldwin\u2019s early days as a teenage prodigy at NYC\u2019s renowned DeWitt Clinton High School.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magpie was a journal created by students, including Baldwin, at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. It offered a portrait of New York student life during the Great Depression.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Co-hosted by NYC-based podcast creator Aldo B. Martin and Harlem-based English Professor Frank Leon Roberts, the podcast is a comprehensive analysis that incorporates casual conversation with absorbing audio performances that feature rare and never-before-recorded work by teenage Baldwin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInsightful, conversational, and accessible–J<\/strong>ames Baldwin: The Magpie Years <\/em><\/strong>will appeal to anyone with a love for James Baldwin, New York City, or the power of literature,\u201d reads the synopsis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two episodes are currently available to stream now. Chapter one,<\/strong> Peace on Earth<\/em><\/strong>, tells the first story that 15-year-old Baldwin writes in the Magpie. \u201c<\/strong>It\u2019s a story about four friends entrenched in a fox hole, in the middle of an unnamed war. Professor Roberts points out how the themes of inter-ethnic friendships and collaborations stand out to him in this story.  He also suggests that the story is about Americans abroad; a theme that would follow Baldwin into adulthood.  All the while, he and Aldo discuss how the themes of religion, friendship, and a global outlook are interwoven into this story.<\/strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In chapter two, Discovery<\/em>, Dr. Roberts and Aldo B. Martin recount the stories of how they first became acquainted with Baldwin\u2019s work. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Listen to The Magpies Years<\/em> via <\/strong>Apple Podcasts<\/strong><\/a> or <\/strong>Spotify Podcasts<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Baldwin: The Magpie Years, 1940-1942 is a newly released podcast that takes listeners through James Baldwin\u2019s early days as a teenage prodigy at NYC\u2019s renowned DeWitt Clinton High School. The Magpie was a journal created by students, including Baldwin, at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. It offered a portrait of New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[565,1391,31,299,1390],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-black-history","tag-black-podcast","tag-featured","tag-james-baldwin","tag-new-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}