Wanderings: On Mary McCarthy’s “A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Émigrés”

Wanderings: On Mary McCarthy’s “A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Émigrés”:

My essay out in Electric Literature. One of my favorite Baldwin quotes is in it: 

“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”