Jimin Kang
@jiminkanggg.bsky.social
Now: PhD Comp Lit at Stanford. Prev: geography & comp lit at Oxford, Princeton ('21), Reuters in 🇧🇷. Born 🇰🇷 raised 🇭🇰. https://www.jimin-kang.com/
The book has mesmerized me each time I've read it, and you captured Baldwin's particular magic so well— thank you for writing it, and for your writing in general! 😊
September 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The book has mesmerized me each time I've read it, and you captured Baldwin's particular magic so well— thank you for writing it, and for your writing in general! 😊
This sounds amazing, Jeff! Any chance the roundtable will be livestreamed / made available online?
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This sounds amazing, Jeff! Any chance the roundtable will be livestreamed / made available online?
“But if, at the same time, someone else succeeded in capturing his conscience, then man might even spurn Your bread and follow the one who ensnared his conscience… For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” (trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew)
March 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“But if, at the same time, someone else succeeded in capturing his conscience, then man might even spurn Your bread and follow the one who ensnared his conscience… For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” (trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew)
Day 13: read the chapter on ‘The Grand Inquisitor’. How chillingly it speaks to the current moment— especially re: the heaviness of exercising our conscience + how easy it is to be (mis)led to compromise it for “the assurance of daily bread.”
March 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Day 13: read the chapter on ‘The Grand Inquisitor’. How chillingly it speaks to the current moment— especially re: the heaviness of exercising our conscience + how easy it is to be (mis)led to compromise it for “the assurance of daily bread.”