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Toni Morrison

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The Last Book I Loved: Home

  • Jeremy Reed
  • July 28, 2015
I’ve been drawn to Morrison lately because I’ve been thinking about historical and social wakes as I’ve felt the swaying of the ones I’m in.
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The End of Literature

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 22, 2015
The rapid rise of “trigger warnings” is starting to impact literature curriculums. For instance, Columbia University students lobbied to include warnings on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a core text in Western Literature…
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Letter to Everyone Else

  • Bryan Washington
  • July 20, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to storm the literary world over at Rolling Stone and New York Magazine, and if those accolades weren’t enough, Toni Morrison has decreed him to “fill the intellectual void…
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The Rumpus Interview with Paul Griner

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • May 22, 2015
Paul Griner talks about his newest novel, Second Life, his just-released story collection Hurry Please I Want to Know, putting real life into fiction, and whether creative writing can be taught.
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God Help the Mother

  • Guia Cortassa
  • April 23, 2015
Her name becomes shorthand for a republic of women and black artists with “no home in this place” to borrow a phrase from Morrison’s Nobel lecture, people who create, reclaim…
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Riding With the Queen

  • Guia Cortassa
  • April 9, 2015
Over at the New York Times, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah profiles Toni Morrison in a tremendous essay: Morrison is a woman of guardrails and many boundaries; she keeps them up in…
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Toni Morrison, Resplendent Orchid

  • Dinah Fay
  • March 18, 2015
Toni Morrison was honored at this year’s National Book Critics Circle award ceremony, and Rita Dove’s remarks capture Morrison’s ongoing legacy beautifully. Dove describes her own joy in discovering The…
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Diverse Books by the Numbers

  • Dinah Fay
  • March 11, 2015
Over at FiveThirtyEight, Amy Rothschild explores the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, and the many strategies advocates are using to make a lasting change in the landscape of children’s literature. While 2014 showed…
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Stop Worrying About What Comes Next

  • Jake Slovis
  • February 24, 2015
At The Millions, Jonathan Russell Clark analyzes several last sentences from well-known novels by Hemingway, Tolstoy, Morrison, and Roth. He pays particular attention to the craftsmanship necessary to write these sentences, and…
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Sweetness

  • Claire Burgess
  • February 13, 2015
Toni Morrison’s new story, “Sweetness,” offers a glimpse into her upcoming novel God Save the Child. With her signature raw, haunting honesty, Morrison delves into the ways family can simultaneously love…
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Chipotle: The Next New Yorker?

  • Jake Slovis
  • February 3, 2015
Last year Jonathan Safran Foer teamed up with Chipotle to create a line of cups and to-go bags with short stories by Toni Morrison and George Saunders printed on the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Nayomi Munaweera

  • Soniah Kamal
  • October 24, 2014
Nayomi Munaweera discusses Sri Lanka, its brutal Civil War, and writing a novel about two artists with their identities wrapped up in two different countries, Sri Lanka and America.
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