Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison
LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
What a surprise: the Wall Street Journal (well, Juan Williams, writing there) finds there's: 'Precious' Little of Value in Ghetto Lit . This is apparently: "the fastest-growing segment of African-American letters, a genre called "ghetto lit" or "gangster lit."" (This claim seems anecdotal rather than factual; I'd love to see the numbers (and definitions ...).) Anyway,...
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Novelist Carleen Brice has started a website with a hilarious, but very valid premise. She says what's what in the current issue of Poets & Writers: ... it's hard for anyone--of any color--to make it as a novelist without the support of a wide audience, which for black authors, means the support of white folks. That's why I a black author, started the blog White Readers Meet Black Authors ... Whether...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Love this: EDWIDGE DANTICAT Age: 40 Hometown: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Current Location: Miami, FL Occupation: Writer 1. What four adjectives would your first best friend use to describe you? Funny, neurotic, sensitive and, I hope, kind 2. What dish do you make well? Rice and beans 3. What was your favorite song when you were in high school? “It's Raining Men” by The Weather Girls 4. What...
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hat tip to the SheWrites community for the video.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The White Tiger wins most nominations, from librarians around the world, for the €100,000 prize Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Impac Dublin literary award, but the Indian writer will have to see off the likes of Nobel laureates José Saramago and Toni Morrison if he is to take the world's richest – and most eclectic...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
AMBIDEXTROUS AUTHORS — Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, and Raymond Carver belong to a group of ambidextrous authors who have the facility to place both hands at the sides of their respective cheeks simultaneously. During photo shoots, they are keen on demonstrating this ability. Their adroit use of two hands at the keyboard have led to prolific and [...]
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A Mercy (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison, a review from Harper's Magazine by John Leonard.
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The CLMP Spelling Bee is tonight, so I am freaking out. As you know from this blog, I am not the world's best speller and my hair in not in a good state. Here are some links to keep you busy while I get my poor little act together. Why, oh why, must people hate on Toni Morrison like this ? Go leave a comment. Einstein's watch . Friend of the blog, Jean Thompson , interviewed in the LAT. Michael Jackson...
Mere Orthodoxy (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I recently had the chance to read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye for my Teach For America credentialing program at Loyola Marymount University. Reading the book in that setting prompted notice of the near absence of school in the novel. In one way this is disappointing, as I’m sure Morrison would powerfully present how her [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
[This review from the Monitor's archives originally ran on April 17, 1992.] It was hard to imagine what Toni Morrison would do for an encore after her stunning achievement in "Beloved," her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the psychic scars of slavery. But in her sixth novel, Jazz, she demonstrates ...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
To Honor a Battler, Literary Peace Breaks Out By Patricia Cohen writing in The New York Times, Published: October 21, 2009 The Norman Mailer who was honored Tuesday night by the glittery literati at a gala benefit was generous, nurturing and diligent, a big cuddly teddy bear with rumpled white hair and a rocking chair that faced the bay. Only occasionally did the more familiar Mailer appear, the wild,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown . The Daily Beast editor-in-chief hosted the first ever Norman Mailer Colony soiree at Cipriani last night, to celebrate the non-profit in which promising young writers get to live in Norman Mailer's house in Massachusetts for a week to a month. Guests...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer's memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala and benefit celebrating his writers' colony. VIEW OUR GALLERY. On Tuesday night, inside the cavernous hall...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony gala this Tuesday features a pride of literary lions, including Toni Morrison and Joan Didion. Colony founder Lawrence Schiller on the author's final wish. On Tuesday night in Manhattan, a group of the...
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