Toni Morrison
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Dearly Beloved
Down at Studio 360, Hilton Als talks to Toni Morrison about writing, habit, and age. It’s not the first interview she’s given this year, but it’s certainly one of her memorable ones.
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This Week in Short Fiction
As civil servants in heavily militarized gear keep the Ferguson community under surveillance and the rest of us glued to the Internet for increasingly shocking reports of brutality and awe, we need another good story this week. Enter the Coffee…
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Paradise Locked
In anticipation of this past week’s Hay Festival, fiction luminary Toni Morrison wrote an essay for The Telegraph examining the concept of paradise as it relates to race and class. The novelist locates the promise of this “Utopia for few”…
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Burrito with a Side of Stories
Chipotle is getting into the publishing business. Vanity Fair reports that the burrito chain’s cups and bags will feature very short stories from authors like Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, and others. Shortly after the announcement, Slate published…
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Morrison and Díaz on Writing, Editing, and Race
We’re all very excited about the new Beyoncé album (especially the track featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), but there’s another must-hear event for literary types: a Live from the New York Public Library conversation between Junot Díaz and Toni Morrison. Díaz…
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Words of Wisdom from Writers
It’s commencement speech season, and New York Daily News‘s books blog has a roundup of some of the best graduation advice from literary figures. Like this, from Toni Morrison: …art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond…
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Double Birthday Time!
Happy birthday to Toni Morrison (who turns 82) and Audre Lorde (who would have turned 79)! It’s hard to overstate the importance of their fight to make the voices of women of color heard, and perhaps impossible to overstate how…
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Drop Whatever You’re Doing and Read This Toni Morrison Interview
In 1993, an interview with Toni Morrison appeared in The Paris Review—and it feels just as relevant and immediate twenty years later. Morrison covers vast ground: what makes a good editor, how white writers get black characters wrong (or right), the importance…
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Memory and Work
“I feel totally curious and alive and in control. And almost… magnificent, when I write.” The Guardian converses with Toni Morrison about writing from within, the death of her son, her forthcoming novel Home, and more.
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Morrison’s New Novel
Toni Morrison, who was in DC over the weekend to receive the 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival Award for Creative Achievement, took part in a Q&A for the The Hay-Adams Author Series. The author touched on her upcoming…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Your humble Rumpus Sunday Editor is smitten. Over the last couple weeks, the book blogs have been in form, publishing intelligent, hilarious, insightful, and riveting posts. In a word, they’ve been brilliant. Some, but most certainly not all, of my…