Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writing about Toni Morrison, listening to T-Pain. Multitudes. That’s all I’m saying.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a surprise move, John Maxwell Coetzee became the first Nobel Laureate to give up writing and join the ATP tour. He's playing men's and mixed doubles in this year's Open. Toni Morrison had considered it back in the mid-1980s, but wrote Beloved instead.
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Christine Kearney, Reuters - Even as the United States has the opportunity to elect its first black president, prominent American author Toni Morrison says black college students today are not as focused on racial issues as their predecessors. “In racial division, they are not interested. They are sort of bored with it,” said Morrison, the first black [...]
Reuters (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even as the United States has the opportunity to elect its first black president, prominent American author Toni Morrison says black college students today are not as focused on racial issues as their predecessors.
Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Turning invisibility inside out: Both the Washington Post and the New York Times took note this week of HBO's "The Black List," a series of conversations with "some of today's most fascinating and influential African Americans." Prominent among those interviews is 77-year-old Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Other midlife women in the series include 44-year-old playwright Suzan-Lori Parks;... [This...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Upcoming at the 92nd Street Y: An Emily Dickinson brunch talk, Dostoevsky adapted, Woolf’s The Waves, and Toni Morrison. (Via.)
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Sarah Schulman, who knows everythig about NYC called me yesterday to tell me to get my tickets early for events at the 92nd Street Y. I was too shy to tell her that I didn't even know which events were happening. They have some yummy stuff this season. Toni Morrison is reading on December 9. (Update: I think I have a connection to get an early copy of A Mercy . I'll keep you posted!) My terrific boss,...
Modern Fabulousity (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Rachel Maddow finally got her own TV show, starting in two weeks on MSNBC. Now maybe I'll start sitting through Olbermann again; Rachel is to political commentary what Toni Morrison is to prose...a perceptive, distinctive original. Can't wait to see what she does now that she's alone in the spotlight.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
HOUSTON.- Bill T. Jones, Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Toni Morrison, Al Sharpton, Richard Parsons, Lorna Simpson, and Thelma Golden are just a few of those whose faces are seen and voices heard in The black list Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, a highly personal documentary account of being black in America. This August the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, hosts the
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
What, other than race, explains how Barack rolled up 90-10 margins among black voters while running against Hillary Clinton, wife of the man novelist Toni Morrison dubbed "our first black president"? ...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
I'm hardly here for long, so here goes: 1. Author: There's Sherwood Anderson and William Dean Howells and Toni Morrison; I'll pick the latter though none are true favorites of mine. 2. Director: Wes Craven remains underrated; I still like...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston Starting off with the often ridiculed 1998 hyperbole from writer Toni Morrison who decided that Bill Clinton was the nation’s first black president, “Asian Pop” writer,Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle, has decided that Barack Obama could be the first “Asian American president” if elected in November. Apparently Yang is unaware [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Starting off with the often ridiculed 1998 hyperbole from writer Toni Morrison who decided that Bill Clinton was the nation's first black president, "Asian Pop" writer, Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle , has decided that Barack Obama could be the first "Asian American president" if elected in November. Apparently Yang is unaware of how much ridicule has been heaped upon Morrison, and deservingly...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
In interviews after Beloved, Toni Morrison called for a bench by the side of the road to commemorate slavery. In S.C. last weekend, she dedicated one.
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Toni Morrison has dedicated a memorial to the men and women whose lives were damaged by slavery. The memorial is a simple one, an iron bench. This bench is the first in ten which will make up the "Bench By The Road" project. One of her favorite sites for a bench would be in Oberlin, Ohio, a stop on the Underground Railroad near her hometown of Lorain, she said. While a number of museums dedicated...
