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Toni Morrison

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing

Listen to the Sound of My Voice

by Seyward Darby April 5, 2021October 19, 2022

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, profile, Story, Writing

Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of ‘Fish Tales’

by Michael Gonzales October 29, 2019January 20, 2023

Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.

Posted inNonfiction

‘People Can Become Houses’

by Danielle Jackson September 26, 2019January 27, 2023

In her debut memoir, Sarah Broom builds her “obsession” with her family home — destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — into a story of how families decide who they are, how they got here, and how they reconstruct themselves over and over again.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Current Events, Reading List

Toni Morrison, 1931-2019

by Danielle Jackson August 13, 2019October 19, 2022

An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.

Posted inCommentary, Nonfiction, Uncategorized

James Baldwin and the Lost Giovanni’s Room Screenplay

by Matt Giles November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

In 1978, James Baldwin began working on a screenplay for Giovanni’s Room, his most beloved work. For the past forty years, though, the script has been shelved in a London flat.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing

The Writer Alone

by Tajja Isen September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

A woman out of her mind, locked in an apartment. This, I believed, was the optimal, and probably only, condition under which art could be made.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

To Post, or Not to Post?

by Eloghosa Osunde September 7, 2018October 19, 2022

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

To Post, or Not to Post?

by Eloghosa Osunde September 7, 2018October 19, 2022

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List, Unapologetic Women

The Mastery and Magic of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

by Danielle Jackson September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

With her profiles of Toni Morrison, Dave Chapelle, James Baldwin, and more, Ghansah is an unparalleled chronicler of black excellence.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

by heymarkarms February 18, 2017October 19, 2022

INTERVIEWER You mentioned getting permission to write. Who gave it to you? MORRISON No one. What I needed permission to do was to succeed at it. I never signed a contract until the book was finished because I didn’t want it to be homework. A contract meant somebody was waiting for it, that I had […]

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