Sonny's Blues

Selected Internet resources for you to browse and get some alternative perspectives and ideas for your analyses. The sites below include student responses, book reviews, and general connections between the blues and the story. As always, please email me with suggested other links.

Milliken University, Student Commentaries on Sonny's Blues

Missouri, Student Responses to Sonny's Blues

Gina Vafiadis Student Response Paper on "Sonny's Blues"

Connections to the Blues and Literature: Essays/Responses

UCLA graduate student paper, Alejandro Alonso: "The Blues: in Langston Hughes' The Blues I'm Playing & James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues"

Boston Book Review: "James Baldwin: An Appreciation"

UCLA student "Introduction to Sonny's Blues"