Glory Edim's 'Gather Me' traces the dramatic arc of her life as well as her discovery of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and other Black writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-21 17:03:20 UTC ]
Emily Henry, Toni Morrison, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss and more books on sale for 50% off today! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-10 18:01:00 UTC ]
Jimmy Fallon's book club returns, a consideration of Toni Morrison's rejection letters, and the best book to read about Daniel Kahneman. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-27 21:34:00 UTC ]
From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a motherThey say nothing prepares you. Before having my baby, I approached the literature of motherhood as though I were about to sit an exam. If my studies tempered the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-20 11:00:01 UTC ]
Somers, who died in her Brooklyn home this past August, worked on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's memoir, two novels by Toni Morrison, and Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's Pulitzer-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer in her 13-year tenure at Knopf. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Commercial book publishing was (and is) unbearably white. In 1971, when Toni Morrison became a trade editor, about 95 percent of the fiction published by the big commercial houses was by white authors. By 2018, that number dropped only to 89 percent. One of the only other black women working as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 08:50:40 UTC ]
Family memoirs are never about one thing. There’s always a compelling domestic story; in her new memoir, The Critic’s Daughter, Priscilla Gilman tells a fascinating story about her dynamic parents and the literary world that they inhabited. But good memoirs always involve a secondary subplot (or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-06 09:54:35 UTC ]
A former assistant to Toni Morrison, Ahearn was the steward of Baldwin’s archives and managed the film rights to his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
‘On Girlhood,’ edited by Glory Edim, pulls together the work of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-23 12:00:13 UTC ]
In addition to being a prolific novelist, Toni Morrison was a prolific editor. She was committed to championing Black writers, both through her role as senior editor at Random House and her work with writing collectives like The Sisterhood (which included literary giants like June Jordan, Alice... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-10 18:40:25 UTC ]
Toni Morrison’s 1987 classic has sparked debate in the Virginia governor’s race about what public school students should read. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-27 12:53:39 UTC ]
A book series from Penguin will feature leading writers on the legacy of Black figures including W.E.B. DuBois, John Hope Franklin, Toni Morrison and Stevie Wonder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-20 13:00:14 UTC ]
Review of 'Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature' by Farah Jasmine Griffin Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-10 14:00:12 UTC ]
Aged 15 I got a Christmas job at my local bookshop in Battersea so I could save to go interrailing. My parents’ bookshelves were brimming with mostly Black writers: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, Terry McMillan, and I was surrounded by ‘consciousness’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-30 21:25:59 UTC ]
Kim Cattrall has rounded off the second series of the "Women's Prize Podcast", picking books by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood among her top titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 18:58:43 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize-winning author edited as she read and alphabetized her 1,200-plus book collection by last name. The post For Sale: Toni Morrison’s Apartment and Personal Library appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-11-04 21:30:53 UTC ]
Gayl Jones published her first novel in 1975. It was hailed by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. Then Gayl disappeared from the literary scene. Now she's releasing her first novel in 20 years. The post The Long-Awaited Return of Gayl Jones appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-08-05 20:30:18 UTC ]
Reagan Arthur on becoming head of Alfred A. Knopf, publisher of Toni Morrison, Stieg Larsson and many others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-29 21:12:26 UTC ]
His “Paco’s Story” was the surprise winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1987, beating books by Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-17 23:53:36 UTC ]
Four publishing industry figures pay tribute to and share their recollections of acclaimed author and the first African-American Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 22:10:49 UTC ]