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SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Book retailer Borders Group Inc. launched its audiobook download service on its Web site Monday, making 15,000 audiobooks available. Titles such as “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” are among the audiobooks available, and the company said it expected to add hundreds of titles each week. On Monday, more than 5,000 of the [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
From The Guardian: The would-be president's taste in fiction runs to full-bodied American classics like Moby Dick and heavyweight contemporary novelists such as Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and EL Doctorow (apparently his second favourite author after Shakespeare). Where George W...
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Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double." --Toni Morrison Yesterday in England, Venus and Serena Williams woke up together, had breakfast together, and then went out and completely dominated the world's most prestigious tennis tournament. In the women's final at Wimbledon , Venus beat Serena in a scintillating match that showcased...
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Mythistoria (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Quite a list. I'm not convinced Dan Brown belongs in this company, nor Rowling, and where the hell is Toni Morrison? Or Hemingway?! Nevertheless... The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list...
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
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green LA girl (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Of the so-called 1001 Books to read before you die, I’ve read 125: The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen White Teeth – Zadie Smith The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver The Hours – Michael Cunningham Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden Jazz – Toni Morrison A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson Like Water [...]
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Quomodocumque (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I woke up the other morning thinking to myself, you know what would be funny? To go from Toni Morrison's depiction of Bill Clinton as the first black president to the observation that Barack Obama, having missed his chance to be the first black president, could still be the first Jewish president: child [...]
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Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston We can all painfully recall when back in 1998 New Yorker columnist Toni Morrison obsequiously called Bill Clinton our “first black president,” can't we? I suppose it isn't surprising that Morrison is now supporting Barack Obama since she is all about race, of course. It should be noted Obama is a tad [...]
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
We can all painfully recall when back in 1998 New Yorker columnist Toni Morrison obsequiously called Bill Clinton our "first black president," can't we? I suppose it isn't surprising that Morrison is now supporting Barack Obama since she is all about race, of course. It should be noted Obama is a tad blacker than Bill Clinton so the race mongers of the left are finally streaming to him after a slow...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
At Time Andrea Sachs collects 10 Questions for Toni Morrison.
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Infinite Monkeys (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Bill Clinton was dubbed in 1998 by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison as America's honorary First Black President. Back then, you might remember, Clinton was suffering from his impeachment shame. And Democrats everywhere were rushing to his defense. Some defenders...
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Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Darryl Fears, in a Washington Post blog, quotes Toni Morrison, in a recent Time magazine interview, distancing herself from the Clintons by asserting that people who read her New Yorker description of Bill Clinton as “the first black president” misunderstood her. People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being [...]
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Photo by spisharam I’m going out on my own again this week and will be curious to see Melanie Jones’ pick for Ohio in the future. My pick for Ohio is one of the most unprecedented and peerless contemporary writers — Toni Morrison. Now if you have read one of her novels, then you already know that it [...]
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Ouch Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass. MORRISON: People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are,...
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
“I thought about voting for Hillary at the beginning. I don't care that she is a woman. I need more than that. Neither [Obama's] race, his gender, her race or her gender was enough. I needed something else, and the something else was his wisdom.” Toni Morrison And, on her remark that Bill Clinton was the first [...]
