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....
View ArticleMemory 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...
View ArticleDrop 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...
View ArticleDouble 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...
View ArticleWords 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...
View ArticleMorrison 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...
View ArticleBurrito 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,...
View ArticleParadise 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleDearly 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.Related Posts:This...
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The Rumpus Interview with Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors begins in Sri Lanka in 1948, with the departure of the British, and ends in 2009, the year Sri Lanka saw the the cessation of its bloody thirty-year...
View ArticleChipotle: The Next New Yorker?
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 side. Now the author is at it...
View ArticleSweetness
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...
View ArticleStop Worrying About What Comes Next
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...
View ArticleDiverse Books by the Numbers
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...
View ArticleToni Morrison, Resplendent Orchid
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...
View ArticleRiding With the Queen
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 order to do the work. The work...
View ArticleGod Help the Mother
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 and celebrate art that is...
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The Rumpus Interview with Paul Griner
Once upon a time, I took a creative writing class with Paul Griner. It was 2008, and I was a new PhD student in the Humanities program at the University of Louisville. Paul, then the director of the...
View ArticleLetter to Everyone Else
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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