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Trinidad Express, November 20, 2009
...skin colour but the commonalities she says are so bizarre. On the question of colour, she cites novelist Toni Morrison. On Clinton, Morrison (1998) wrote bold in the New Yorker magazine, White skin not withstanding, this is our first Black president,...
Biography.com, November 20, 2009
...signed a multi-picture contract with Disney. The initial project, 1998's Beloved, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison and starring Winfrey and Danny Glover, got mixed reviews and generally failed to live up to expectations. Winfrey,...
Cornell Daily Sun, November 16, 2009
...typically orders literary fiction one dozen at a time and only purchased 100 copies of A Mercy for Toni Morrison’s reading in October, 250 copies of Nabokov’s book were purchased in the first batch. Since is not a complete novel, many contend that it...
Guardian.co.uk, November 13, 2009
...think, 'Oh, yes. Oh, that's erotic''. These mightn't be sentiments you can imagine Oprah sharing with Toni Morrison, but Beck's endorsement has made Pursuit of Honour a big hit, at number three in the bestseller list, just behind Dan Brown and Patricia...
Tulsa World, November 11, 2009
...Franklin, Neil Simon, David McCullough, Ray Bradbury, Peter Matthiessen, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John le Carré, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, John Updike, Larry McMurtry and Norman Cousins...
National Post, November 3, 2009
...England, too --putting him in exclusive company: Only Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga ( The White Tiger), Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison ( A Mercy), Sebastian Barry ( The Secret Scripture), twice shortlisted for the Booker, and French sensation Muriel...
The Independent, November 3, 2009
...Coma. American author Phillip Roth has been nominated for Indignation; other US entries include 1993 Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison for A Mercy, and Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson for Home. The full list can be viewed on...
National Post, November 2, 2009
...around the world: Indian writer, Aravind Adiga is the libraries favorite with 9 nominations for , A Mercy by Toni Morrison, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and The Secret Scripture by Sebastian...
Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2009
...many Americans: William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison. It's enough to inspire a years-long reading binge. Some Nobel laureates have been forgotten. The first, French...
Topnews.in, October 22, 2009
...author Min Lieskovsky on his arm, reports the New York Post. The guest list also included Tina Brown, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Oliver Stone and Annie Leibovitz. Lieskovsky, a Chinese/Hungarian Harvard grad, had written in ElleGirl last year: "I''m...
PBS, October 20, 2009
...a gift, I can burn a CD. But what to do about sharing Octavia Butler's " Fledgling ," Toni Morrison's " Love " or J. Nozipo Maraire's " Zenzele ?" Now you're beginning to see my point! Now our mission is clear! We must stand...
The Weekly, October 15, 2009
...City of New York; The Honorable Thurgood Marshall - 1st African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; and Ms. Toni Morrison - Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. The Howard University Alumni Association was founded by the University in...
New Jersey Beacon, October 13, 2009
...the sound of their names makes a literature lover go weak in the knees: Chang-rae Lee, Paul Muldoon, Toni Morrison, C.K. Williams... it?s one of the reasons Princeton is the intellectual capital of the universe. Princeton University?s creative...
Southwest Florida Herald Tribune, October 9, 2009
...has been 15 years since an American won the Nobel for literature; in 1993 it was given to Toni Morrison. 'I am very surprised and still cannot believe it,' Mueller said in a statement released by her publisher in Germany. 'I can't say anything more at...
Times & Transcripts, October 9, 2009
...recent years -- a trend the committee has defended, apologized for and perpetuated. No American has won since Toni Morrison, in 1993. Other countries, and continents, have waited longer. Canada is home to at least three of the world's most respected...
Miami Herald, October 8, 2009
...should be easy, I would think, to find those writers," he said. No American has won since Toni Morrison, in 1993. Other countries, and continents, have waited longer. Canada is home to at least three of the world's most respected authors - Margaret...
Monsters and Critics, October 8, 2009
...Italy) 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) 1995 - Seamus Heaney (Ireland) 1994 - Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) 1993 - Toni Morrison (US) 1992 - Derek Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago) 1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 1990 - Octavio Paz (Mexico) 1989 - Camilo Jose...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, October 8, 2009
...Englund will announce the winner at the academys headquarters in Stockholms Old Town. The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. No writer from South America has won since Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. The last North American writer was...
Washington Post, October 8, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize Monetary Prize: $10,000 In a Nutshell: Big, long books about the American experience. Prototypical Winner: Toni Morrison Award: National Book Award Monetary prize: $10,000 In a Nutshell: With the Pulitzer, most well-known American prize....
Washington Post, October 8, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize Monetary Prize: $10,000 In a Nutshell: Big, long books about the American experience. Prototypical Winner: Toni Morrison Award: National Book Award Monetary prize: $10,000 In a Nutshell: With the Pulitzer, most well-known American prize....
Miami Herald, October 7, 2009
...Italy. - 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland. - 1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland. - 1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan. - 1993: Toni Morrison, United States. - 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia. - 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa. - 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico. - 1989:...
KansasCity.com, October 7, 2009
...announce the winner at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm's Old Town. The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. No writer from South America has won since Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. The last North American writer was Canadian Saul...
Monsters and Critics, October 7, 2009
...Mayer, Norwegian daily Aftenposten's Terje Stemland and Darryl Accone of the Mail & Guardian in South Africa. Toni Morrison was in 1993 the most recent US author to win the Nobel Literature Prize - perhaps improving the chances for an American. Others...
CNN, October 6, 2009
...Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol,' as well as authors ranging from Stephen King and John Grisham to Toni Morrison and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcasting company; magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes the German...
CNN, October 5, 2009
...Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol,' as well as authors ranging from Stephen King and John Grisham to Toni Morrison and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcasting company; magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes the German...
Yahoo! Canada, October 5, 2009
...Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol,' as well as authors ranging from Stephen King and John Grisham to Toni Morrison and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcasting company; magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes the German...
CNN, October 5, 2009
...Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol,' as well as authors ranging from Stephen King and John Grisham to Toni Morrison and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcasting company; magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes the German...
CNN Money, October 5, 2009
...Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol,' as well as authors ranging from Stephen King and John Grisham to Toni Morrison and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcasting company; magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes the German...
Cornell Daily Sun, October 3, 2009
...Nobel laureate returns to read new book, A Mercy Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MFA ?55, had a joyous homecoming yesterday in a packed Bailey Hall, which welcomed the renowned writer with a standing ovation. Morrison, who graduated from Cornell 54 years...
MSNBC, October 2, 2009
...s criticism of American writing has prompted us to push out their odds.'The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. The American musical legend Bob Dylan, a perennial on the short list for the poetry of his lyrics, is quoted at 25/1. Many...
Yahoo! India, October 2, 2009
...s criticism of American writing has prompted us to push out their odds.' The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. The American musical legend Bob Dylan, a perennial on the short list for the poetry of his lyrics, is quoted at 25/1. MANY...
Reuters, October 2, 2009
...s criticism of American writing has prompted us to push out their odds.' The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. The American musical legend Bob Dylan, a perennial on the short list for the poetry of his lyrics, is quoted at 25/1. MANY...
Cleveland Live, October 1, 2009
...of the authors whose books have been challenged across the country in the last two years: Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Julia Alvarez, Ernest Gaines, Kurt Vonnegut, Khaled Hosseini, Bobbie Ann Mason and J.D. Salinger....
Mason Gazette, September 30, 2009
...acclaimed works of poetry and a novel, ?Record Palace,? which received a sparkling review from Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Her poetry has been in ?The Best American Poetry? series, a book of contributor poetry overseen by a new...
Daily Pennsylvanian, September 29, 2009
...in certain communities. 'People had no idea that books are being challenged,' he said. Furthermore, many books by Toni Morrison, who is regarded today as one of America's most brilliant writers, have been banned because of their subject matter, Fritz...
Miami Herald, September 29, 2009
...grown comfortable with his lead actors after directing them in Order of the Phoenix , nudges real performances ? Toni Morrison explores slaves in the New World A MERCY. Toni Morrison. Knopf. 167 pages. $23.95. Women, men, Africans, Native Americans,...
St. Petersburg Times, September 26, 2009
...list suggests that most significant works of literature contain material that could make some readers uncomfortable. Beloved by Toni Morrison Dubliners by James Joyce Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The House of the...
Colgate University, September 25, 2009
...literature student at the University of Andres Bello in Caracas, asked Diaz for reading recommendations. 'Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison are some of the most important living American writers,' Diaz answered. When asked by a student in the audience if...
Daily Item, September 25, 2009
...achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, nonfiction or biography. Previous recipients have been Toni Morrison, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Derek Walcott and David McCullough...
Telegraph, September 25, 2009
...by Michael Ondaatje Nii Parkes: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Roger Robinson: Sula by Toni Morrison Sujata Bhatt: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Sukhdev Sandhu: The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr...
PRWeb, September 22, 2009
...talented artists, writers, and musicians associated with the state of Ohio, including James Thurber, Kay Boyle, Ian Frazier, Toni Morrison, and Elizabeth George. Kay and Jerri say they are thrilled that is being recognized in this way. Jerri said, '' Kay...
Toledoblade.com, September 21, 2009
...College of Arts and Sciences during his lifetime.Other speakers in the series have included Nobel Prize-winning authors Toni Morrison and Elie Wiesel, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, and environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr...
Comic Book Bin, September 19, 2009
...Rowling will join two other prominent female authors to be announced next month. Those currently under consideration include Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. Davis notes...
Oxford American Magazine, September 19, 2009
...a publishing contract, has been awarded in even-number years since 2000, and previous judges include such writers as Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, and Anna Quindlen. The deadline for submissions for the 2010 prize is October 2, 2009, and the winners...
Momlogic, September 18, 2009
...Gabriel García Márquez Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton East of Eden, by John Steinbeck Sula, by Toni Morrison Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen Cane River, by...
USAgNet, September 13, 2009
...and students in classroom, laboratory and informal settings. Past appointees include filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, primatologist Jane Goodall, novelists Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty, poets Octavio Paz and Adrienne Rich, physician Oliver Sacks and...
New York Times, September 12, 2009
...that Oyeyemi?s story is suffering ever so slightly under the weight of a political agenda. As in Toni Morrison?s ?Beloved? or Chris Abani?s ?Song for Night,? the supernatural elements of ?White Is for Witching? serve to remind the...
Cleveland Live, September 11, 2009
...much on the minds of the winners Thursday night. Past honorees include Gwendolyn Brooks, Ha Jin, Pat Conroy, Toni Morrison, Wallace Stegner, Derek Walcott, Zora Neale Hurston, Nadine Gordimer, Gunnar Myrdal and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in...
M2, September 10, 2009
...of "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer. Further biographies of prominent female authors are to be announced in October with Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf currently being...
Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 2009
...of selecting two other prominent female authors for its comic book series, and said it was deliberating between Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. The books are being...
MTV, September 9, 2009
...Rowling will join two other prominent female authors to be announced next month. Those currently under consideration include Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. Davis notes...
Cornell University, September 9, 2009
...and students in classroom, laboratory and informal settings. Past appointees include filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, primatologist Jane Goodall, novelists Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty, poets Octavio Paz and Adrienne Rich, physician Oliver Sacks and...
MTV, September 8, 2009
...Rowling will join two other prominent female authors to be announced next month. Those currently under consideration include Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. Davis notes...
MTV, September 8, 2009
...Rowling will join two other prominent female authors to be announced next month. Those currently under consideration include Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. Davis notes...
Houma Today, September 7, 2009
...library branch's Banned Books Club is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. to discuss Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.' Naomi Hurtienne, a reference librarian at the Thibodaux branch, said Thibodaux noticed an article about the library's...
Philly.com, September 6, 2009
..."Come, let us celebrate another year of unraveling racism, injustice, homophobia . . ." Accessible treasure While others who count Toni Morrison and Bill Cosby among their best friends may live their lives more exclusively, that's never how Sanchez has...
Northwest Herald, September 3, 2009
...a who?s who of the top writers in the United States and abroad. Larry McMurtry. Pat Conroy. Toni Morrison. John Grisham. Those are just a handful of names that can be found on the Times? best-selling fiction lists. If you?re looking for an...
Kane County Chronicle, September 3, 2009
...a who's who of the top writers in the United States and abroad. Larry McMurtry. Pat Conroy. Toni Morrison. John Grisham. Those are just a handful of names that can be found on the Times' best-selling fiction lists. If you're looking for an entertaining...
Guardian Unlimited, August 31, 2009
...unique, born of personal passion and not common opinion. When he said that his favourite book was by Toni Morrison (who is widely, and correctly, believed to be the greatest living American writer) it was no surprise; the surprise was that he chose Song...
Rutland Herald, August 30, 2009
...who picked challenging titles like 'A Lesson Before Dying' by Ernest J. Gaines and 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison, of which she wrote, partly in text-message speak: 'I would have N3V3R thought of or about something like that on my own.'The approach...
New York Daily News, August 30, 2009
...and had never picked up a book, and seniors who were reading everything from Japanese graphic novels to Toni Morrison. These young men and women were in the very same English class, and in a trackless system. They had been in the same class for four...
New York Times, August 29, 2009
...who picked challenging titles like A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, of which she wrote, partly in text-message speak: I would have N3V3R thought of or about something like that on my own. The approach Ms....
NOLA Live, August 27, 2009
...some literary heavy lifting -- short stories by Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey's 'Deliverance,' Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye,' Tim Gautreaux's 'Welding With Children' and William Faulkner's 'Absalom! Absalom!' For fun, she read 'a...
New York Post, August 25, 2009
...years there have been 12 challenges from patrons to yank certain books and DVDs off the shelves, including Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Woody Allen's film 'Mighty Aphrodite.' 'This is the first case of 12 where we relocated the book due to the...
Black America Web, August 21, 2009
...college into adulthood means for a lot of tough choices, if comical ones. ON SHELVES: ?A Mercy,? by Toni Morrison. The latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author deals with a mother-daughter relationship. ?Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and...
The Independent, August 13, 2009
...with CVs of every stripe, from ad copywriter (both Joseph Heller and Salman Rushdie) to publisher's editor (Toni Morrison) and stonemason-sculptor (G...
Broadway World, August 11, 2009
... From the Actor and Obie Award-Winning Playwright Toni Morrison Says is 'Lovely, Hilarious, and Seriously Thought-Provoking' ESSAYS BY Wallace Shawn WITH A BOLD and broad-ranging set of essays, Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory journey through high...
Examiner.com, July 28, 2009
...which they're interested. Many of the books on the list are written by well known authors, including Toni Morrison, Jack London and Elie Wiesel. The books are selected because the students will likely receive essay assignments on their summer reading...
Suite101.com, July 26, 2009
...2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (France and Mauritius) 2001: V.S. Naipaul (UK) 1999: Günter Grass (Germany) 1993: Toni Morrison (USA) 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) 1974: Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson (Sweden) 1966: Shmuel Agnon (Israel)...
The Independent, July 24, 2009
...world. Central to the Cardiff course is the reading of a wide variety of texts, from Chaucer to Toni Morrison, from Old English to contemporary fiction and modern drama. You can choose from a range of modules, including Shakespeare, Romantics,...
Times Higher Education Supplement, July 23, 2009
...studies had to say to each other.'Although he offered close readings of authors from Thomas Hardy to Toni Morrison, he also adopted what one might call a cultural-studies approach, looking at material culture, always questioning the Canon, the state of...
New York Times, July 10, 2009
...or recommending lately? I?m always recommending my literary heroes: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner. At the moment, I?m reading David Mitchell?s ?Cloud Atlas? and Olaf Stapledon?s...
Wichita Eagle, July 9, 2009
...There has also been a notable influx of books by women and minority writers, particularly in literary anthologies. Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou are widely read, as are Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' Sandra Cisneros's 'The House on Mango Street,'...
Suite101.com, July 8, 2009
...grant her everything. For this task she hires Junior, a runaway girl with her own agenda. Morrison´s Genius Toni Morrison is a wonderful writer, as it´s showcased by her Pulitzer Prize, and by her Nobel Prize in Literature. She uses the same amazing...
Macon Telegraph, July 6, 2009
...There has also been a notable influx of books by women and minority writers, particularly in literary anthologies. Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou are widely read, as are Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' Sandra Cisneros's 'The House on Mango Street,'...
Chicago Defender, July 4, 2009
...and you?ll understand why I?d rather be singing while sitting on a stool.' A few others: Toni Morrison on President Barack Obama: ?This opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the...
Examiner.com, July 3, 2009
...by Arthur Miller Anywhere But Here, by Mona Simpson Breakfast at Tiffany?s, by Truman Capote Beloved, by Toni Morrison The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Joan Didion Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner The Stories of...
PublishersWeekly.com, June 29, 2009
...Heidi Durrow, 40 (Algonquin, Feb.) Born: Seattle, Wash.; now lives in L.A. and New York. Favorite authors: Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, George Eliot, Gabriel Garc...
Knox Village Soup, June 11, 2009
...Year!â Happy reading from Youthlinks and the Banned Books Club! 1. Atonement by Ian McEwan 2. Beloved by Toni Morrison 3. The Boy from the Basement by Susan Shaw 4. The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde 5. The curious incident of the dog in the...
USA Today, June 4, 2009
...YORK - The setting was divine a duplex on the Upper East Side. The featured speaker, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The subjects: sex, violence and profanity. In other words, the stuff that books are banned for. Some 50 publishers, writers and other...
Guardian Unlimited, June 3, 2009
...enthralling and charming', said the teen judges), Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog ('painfully and beautifully true'), Toni Morrison's Mercy ('embroidered onto a bedding of rich slave trade history and culture'), Gina Oscher's The Russian Dreambook of...
NPR, May 31, 2009
...essays on the power of the word, published in a new collection called , edited by Nobel prize-winning writer, Toni Morrison. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Morrison about the book and censorship...
NPR, May 31, 2009
...Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is a member of the human rights organization, PEN, which fights against censorship in literature. Morrison is the editor of a new book of essays by PEN authors about...
Grazia Magazine, May 29, 2009
...one lucky winner the entire long list - that's a brilliant 20 books including A Mercy by Toni Morrison, Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie and Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo. As if that isn't enough you'll also win the Blackberry Pearl 8120 in indigo,...
WBUR On Point, May 28, 2009
...We?ll talk with , novelist and Nobel laureate, about censorship and the power of the free word. Guest: Toni Morrison joins us from New York. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, for her novel Beloved. She is...
Broadway World, May 22, 2009
...time, but during its original Off-Broadway run, the show gained the attention of A-listers such as Alicia Keys, Toni Morrison, Charlize Theron and Beyonce. Jones, who won a Tony for choreographing 'Spring Awakening,' is planning to take one more pass at...
Electronista, May 22, 2009
...by Amazon for Kindle books, reports show. At least 40 e-books from Random House, including major titles from Toni Morrison and Stephen King, can no longer use the Kindle 2's TTS feature to read the books aloud. Random House hasn't officially announced...
Island Packet, May 19, 2009
...4 p.m., Lobeco Branch of Beaufort County Library, 1862 Trask Parkway, Lobeco; discuss 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison; for ages 16 and up; 843-846-3937 Beaufort Belles rehearsal: 4:30-6:30 p.m., Baptist Church of Beaufort, 600 Charles St., Beaufort; an...
Huffington Post, May 19, 2009
...What do President Obama, Vice President Biden, Toni Morrison, the Pope, Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Mother Teresa, Isaac Asimov, Tom Brokaw, P.D. James, Robert B. Reich, George Will and Ann Coulter have in common? In the last...
Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 2009
...the classroom. A high school English teacher in Shelby, Mich., has been ordered to remove a book by Toni Morrison from her curriculum after parents complained about profanity, sexual references, and violence. The book is ?Song of Solomon,? the story...
Muskegon Chronicle, May 17, 2009
...members of the community objected to its profanity, sexual references and violence. 'Song of Solomon,' a book by Toni Morrison about an African-American man living in Michigan, was ordered removed from a list of books students could choose to read in...
Toys And Gadgets, May 15, 2009
...on their offer. So far, they have disabled text-to-speech on about 40 titles which include books from Toni Morrison and Stephen King. This feature seems to have been turned off quietly for these titles. In other words, nothing official has come...
Engadget, May 15, 2009
...House -- has thrown the dreaded 'kill switch' on about 40 of its titles, including authors such as Toni Morrison, and, ironically, Stephen King (who you will remember was part of the Kindle 2's launch). Random House disabled the function without much...
MacNN, May 14, 2009
...by Amazon for Kindle books, reports show. At least 40 e-books from Random House, including major titles from Toni Morrison and Stephen King, can no longer use the Kindle 2's TTS feature to read the books aloud. Random House hasn't officially announced...
WebWire, May 13, 2009
...authors were released this week, including Wicked Prey by John Sanford, Burn this Book edited and compiled by Toni Morrison, Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard, and The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman. Anticipated bestsellers this week include...
Creative Loafing, May 13, 2009
...group is torn apart by religious secrets. St. Martin's Press. $25.95. 384 pp. A MERCY BY TONI MORRISON The masterful Toni Morrison returns to the traumas of slavery she first explored in Beloved. Set in a 17th-century Maryland plantation, A Mercy...
The Independent, May 9, 2009
...feel any differently about those august exponents of women's fiction? If one judge had never heard of Toni Morrison, and another explained that the Nobel Prize-winner's new novel has 'the X factor', would that change your mind? If a member of the panel...
USA Today, May 6, 2009
...on a softball team. I'm an Atlanta Braves fan.' On his summer reading list:A Mercy by Toni Morrison, The March by E. L. Doctorow, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed...
The Times, May 6, 2009
...writing it. Autobiography can be a high road to that end. There are those who disdain autobiographical fiction. Toni Morrison, the Nobel prizewinner, dismissed it strongly just the other week at a press conference in London, as evidence of a lack of...
Gazette.net, April 30, 2009
...Publications books, including titles by its seven authors, as well as other African-American literature including classic works by Toni Morrison and Richard Wright. Styles, who lives in Owings Mills, said despite skepticism when she opened the store,...
Toledo Journal, April 28, 2009
...The Toledo Journal Originally posted 4/28/2009 A few hours prior to Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison's address to an audience of over 1,000 people on Friday, April 25 at the University of Toledo, she held a private meeting, but...
Amherst Daily News, April 24, 2009
...OBERLIN, Ohio - Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison says her campaign to commemorate African-American historical sites has brought her home. Morrison was in her home state of Ohio on Thursday to dedicate a memorial bench in Oberlin...
Cleveland Live, April 24, 2009
...College unveiled a park bench Thursday, and about 300 people and a Nobel laureate turned out to cheer. Toni Morrison, who grew up down the road in Lorain, where friends and family still call her 'Chloe,' inspired the gathering with a 1989 observation...
Examiner.com, April 23, 2009
...s voice this week. I?ve got a few more distinctive voices to share with you. Beloved by Toni Morrison There is a lonliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up; holding on, this motion, unlike a ship?s, smooths and contains the rocker....
Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2009
...weighty matters of the human condition: beauty, evil and love. He read passages from Shakespeare, Primo Levi and Toni Morrison - at one point interrupting his reading from Morrison's novel, 'Beloved,' to encourage the audience to sing an African American...
The Times, April 22, 2009
...Samantha Harvey's debut novel was picked from a longlist of 20 ahead of more established writers including Toni Morrison, a Nobel laureate, whose novel A Mercy did not make the cut. Her book The Wilderness, explores the fading memories of an Alzheimers...
Examiner.com, April 21, 2009
...Beloved, originally Toni Morrison's eponymous Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1987 novel, was released as a motion picture in 1998. It was directed by Jonathan Demme, and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. The...
Telegraph, April 21, 2009
...about a man's struggle to maintain his identity as his brain is destroyed by Alzheimer's, beat Toni Morrison's tale of the late 17th century slave trade, A Mercy. Morrison, an American, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 and has written...
Thelondonpaper, April 21, 2009
...been nominated for the Orange prize for fiction Rick Hewes A FIRST-TIME British author has beaten literary heavyweight Toni Morrison to scoop a place on the Orange prize for fiction shortlist. Samantha Harvey's debut novel, The Wilderness, is one of just...
Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2009
...only literary fruit ... oranges. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA A debut British novelist has been selected over American literary heavyweight Toni Morrison for the shortlist for this year's Orange prize for fiction. Samantha Harvey's first novel, The...
Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2009
...only literary fruit ... oranges. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA A debut British novelist has been selected over American literary heavyweight Toni Morrison for the shortlist for this year's Orange prize for fiction. Samantha Harvey's first novel, The...
Arizona Republic, April 21, 2009
...as Elaine Showalter indicates in her new history, 'A Jury of Her Peers.' (Two others: Annie Proulx and Toni Morrison.) Smiley has several ongoing projects, including a series of horse books for young readers. Her next novel is 'The Wife's Tale,' based in...
Christian Science Monitor, April 20, 2009
...by Annie Proulx 6. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Monitor review 5/6/08) 7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Monitor review 11/408) 8. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Monitor review 4/1/08) 9. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Monitor review...
WTOL-TV, April 15, 2009
...TOLEDO, OH (UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO) - Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will give the fourth annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Friday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Savage Arena on UT's Main Campus. Morrison was the first black...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 13, 2009
...with S&Sand is only the third African-American woman to make the NYTBR bestseller list for fiction (the others? Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan) The has a profile of the Canadian writer and she waxes poetic on the Dubai book controversy, her new book...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 10, 2009
...with S&Sand is only the third African-American woman to make the NYTBR bestseller list for fiction (the others? Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan) The has a profile of the Canadian writer and she waxes poetic on the Dubai book controversy, her new book...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 10, 2009
...with S&Sand is only the third African-American woman to make the NYTBR bestseller list for fiction (the others? Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan) The has a profile of the Canadian writer and she waxes poetic on the Dubai book controversy, her new book...
EURweb, April 8, 2009
...books from new and established African-American authors. In addition to Due, among its dozens of respected authors are Toni Morrison, Carl Weber, Octavia E. Butler, and Edward P. Jones...
NOLA Live, April 8, 2009
...changed all that much.' Didion is the third writer to appear in Tulane's Great Writer Series, following Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. These events are made possible as a result of the Creative Writing Fund, the gift of an anonymous donor...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 6, 2009
...Slavery is in its early years in Toni Morrison's 2008 novel, 'A Mercy.' In Morrison's ninth novel, set in 1680, a young slave girl is reluctantly accepted as payment for a bad debt, setting into motion...
ArticlesBase.com, April 4, 2009
...importantly in revising our sense of what history means and can accomplish. My project is to examine how Toni Morrison's acclaimed historical novel Beloved (1987) enacts a hybrid vision of history and time that sheds new light on issues addressed by...
Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2009
...to either create imaginary book covers or simply reimagine the books themselves, as in, for example, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison becomes 'Beloved Patriots,' by Tony Morrison: One man?s quest to follow the NFL team he loves to every game during the...
Penn State Daily Collegian, March 27, 2009
...of the 11-day conference, held annually at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., include well-known writers Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Collier said. Collier is also a recipient of the Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships....
Webster-Kirkwood Times, March 26, 2009
...Institute, this program centers on important stories, stimulating dialogue and opportunities for healing. Next up is 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison on April 9. For more details, visit kpl.lib.mo.us or call 821-5770 ext. 16. Phone: 314-821-5770 ext. 16...
Cumberland Courier, March 25, 2009
...Tim Winton (Breath) and Helen Garner (The Spare Room). On the cover of Disquiet, the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison describes Leigh as ?a sorceress. Her deft prose casts a spell of serene control while the earth quakes underfoot.? The other...
Peterborough Examiner, March 21, 2009
...Complicated Kindness.' She faces some stiff competition. The other 19 nominees include Nobel and Pulitzer-prize winning American author Toni Morrison, nominated for her novel about the slave trade, 'A Mercy.' Toews' fifth novel, which deals with a...
The Independent, March 20, 2009
...the other writers on the list, but it's an honour to be on the same list as Toni Morrison. You can't get better than that. It's nice to metaphorically rub shoulders with a Nobel Prize winner...
The Independent, March 19, 2009
...year, she was long-listed for the Man Booker along-side Salman Rushdie. This week she ? and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison ? made the Orange Prize long-list. 'Girl in a Blue Dress', a fictionalised life of Charles Dickens's long-suffering wife...
The Age, March 19, 2009
...Thiong'O , Dubravka Ugresic and Ludmila Ulitskaya. De Kretser and Adelaide join 18 other novelists, including Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson, on the long list for the £30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction by women writers. The winner of...
PR inside, March 19, 2009
...museum, Hillcrest, to her hands-on design work at the homes and offices of Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric and Toni Morrison. Millions of American women have looked to Chris over the past three decades for direction and inspiration as she guided them through...
1057 EZRrock, March 18, 2009
...Complicated Kindness.' She faces some stiff competition. The other 19 nominees include Nobel and Pulitzer-prize winning American author Toni Morrison, nominated for her novel about the slave trade, 'A Mercy.' Toews'fifth novel, which deals with a...
First Post, March 18, 2009
...life of Charles Dickens's wife, is up against A Mercy, the ninth novel of the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, among others ........... Victor Pinchuk, the Ukranian steel billionaire, is staging the world?s largest show of Damien Hirst?s works in Kiev...
New York Times, March 18, 2009
...literary honors: , given annually to a female writer, announced on Wednesday , including Marilynne Robinson (for her novel Home), Toni Morrison (for A Mercy), Allegra Goodman (Intuition) and Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife); finalists will be announced...
Time Out Hong Kong, March 18, 2009
...novel of late-18th-century West Indian slavery, complete with all its carnage and brutishness, but one that, like a Toni Morrison novel, whispers rather than shouts its horrors. Dedicated ?to the railroad of bones? left behind, The Book of Night...
Guardian Unlimited, March 18, 2009
...Toni Morrison: nominated for A Mercy. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Nine of the 20 writers named yesterday on the Orange women's fiction prize longlist were American, including one of the US...
Hawick News, March 18, 2009
...s wife. She is joined on the list by more established writers includin g Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison, whose ninth novel, A Mercy, was nominated. The Orange prize was founded in 1996 to celebrate fiction by women, and is awarded to the...
BBC, March 18, 2009
...of the life of Charles Dickens' wife. She is joined on the list by Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison, whose ninth novel, A Mercy, was also nominated. The prize awards female writers. A shortlist will be announced in April. 'Quality and...
The Scotsman, March 17, 2009
...of Charles Dickens's wife. She is joined by more established writers, including the Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison, with her ninth novel, A Mercy. The Orange prize was founded in 1996 to celebrate fiction by women and is awarded to the...
Guardian Unlimited, March 17, 2009
...on the Orange women's fiction prize longlist were American, including one of the US's literary titans: Toni Morrison. After Morrison, nominated for her 17th century slave trade novel A Mercy, the best-known are arguably Deirdre Madden for Molly Fox's...
Guardian Unlimited, March 17, 2009
...on the Orange women's fiction prize longlist were American, including one of the US's literary titans: Toni Morrison. After Morrison, nominated for her 17th century slave trade novel A Mercy, the best-known are arguably Deirdre Madden for Molly Fox's...
The Scotsman, March 17, 2009
...of Charles Dickens's wife. She is joined by more established writers, including the Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison, with her ninth novel, A Mercy. The Orange prize was founded in 1996 to celebrate fiction by women and is awarded to the...
Webster-Kirkwood Times, March 16, 2009
...Allende ?March 26 book discussion - 'Disgrace' by J.M. Coetzee ?April 9 book discussion - 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison ?April 23 book discussion - 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy ?May 7 book discussion - 'The Dead' by James Joyce Individual...
Sun and Press, March 14, 2009
...Women's History Month cannot go by without some mention of Cornell University MFA graduate and bestselling author, Toni Morrison. Known for work that highlights the experiences of women throughout history, Morrison's latest, 'A Mercy' (Knopf, 2008), is...
Indy.com, March 10, 2009
...and graphic language. The books were Bobbie Ann Mason?s ?In Country,? Chris Crutcher?s ?Chinese Handcuffs? and Toni Morrison?s ?The Bluest Eye.? The books are taught at Delphi High School, a school with about 515 students about 15 miles...
Examiner.com, March 10, 2009
...and graphic language. The books were Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country,' Chris Crutcher's 'Chinese Handcuffs' and Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.' The books are taught at Delphi High School, a school with about 515 students about 15 miles north of...
Lafayette Journal & Courier, March 10, 2009
...challenged by parents in the high school's English curriculum. The district will keep the three books - Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye,' Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country,' and Chris Crutcher's 'Chinese Handcuffs' - and all other books currently in the...
AllAfrica.com, March 5, 2009
...spiritual presence in Morrison's work are incomparably detailed and generally convincing.'--Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply...
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2009
...the Kindle and the iPhone. In fact, over 3G with Wi-Fi turned off, the second book I bought, Toni Morrison's 'Love,' showed up on the iPhone about a minute before it did on the Kindle. The new items show up under 'Archived Items,' and then you download...
NSBA, March 2, 2009
... Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Address NSBA Annual Conference Conference Speakers Also Include Toni Morrison, Julie Andrews, and Greg Mortenson Alexandria, Va. - February 18 - The National School Boards Association announced that it has secured...
Examiner.com, February 27, 2009
...s market. What issues do English teachers and professors have with Contemporary Literature? What is wrong with teaching Toni Morrison in your English class? Or Margaret Atwood? What is wrong with Kurt Vonnegut? Or, for that matter, why do we only read...
CourierPostOnline.com, February 26, 2009
...and made me visualize the painting.' The collection includes art based on books like 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison, 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan' by Lisa See and 'The Planets' by Dava Sobel. The library's manager of special projects, Joan Serpico,...
Biz Journals, February 26, 2009
...veteran of the book publishing industry in New York, the feature puts the spotlight on favorites such as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and a number of surprise choices, including works by Stephen King , Paulo Coelho and Temple...
Stranger, February 26, 2009
...a video projected onto a huge screen with the heads of lots of famous writers from series past (Toni Morrison's head, Jeffrey Eugenides's head, Sherman Alexie's head, et al.) swooping into the distance to a stirring soundtrack. More applause. Then, since...
Houston Villager, February 20, 2009
...as Heinemann calls it, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1987. ?Paco?s Story? edged out Toni Morrison?s ?Beloved? for the award. ?Paco?s Story? is narrated by the ghosts of 96 soldiers who were killed in a fiery attack in the...
Arizona State University, February 20, 2009
...tend to be more spiraling, circular and work through an entire process before they reach the end.? From Toni Morrison to Ntozake Shange, and from Maya Angelou to Carolivia Herron, this interactive presentation highlights African American women writers...
Press-Telegram, February 15, 2009
...Barnes & Noble, 7881 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach. (714) 897-8781. >MONDAY Fiction Book Group discusses 'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison. 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 7881 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach. (714) 897-8781. >TUESDAY Dan Clark, aka Nitro on 'American...
Lincoln Daily News, February 13, 2009
...American from the arts, politics, literature or entertainment. Contributors include writers such as John Updike, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley; Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush; Lincoln and Civil War scholars...
The Silhouette, February 13, 2009
...there has been a divide between literary fiction and popular fiction. Literary fiction (think Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison and the like) is typically believed to be high brow, serious, and free from genre conventions. Though writers of...
CNBC, February 12, 2009
...arts, politics, literature or entertainment. Contributors include writers such as John Updike, Doris Kearns Goodwin , E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley; Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. The book was edited by...
Lake Wylie Pilot, February 11, 2009
...as well as a commentary by such prominent Americans as Presidents Bush (father and son), Clinton and Carter; Toni Morrison, John Updike, Newt Gingrich and Sandra Day O'Connor. Included are photos, drawings and political cartoons of the time.For...
North Texas Daily, February 5, 2009
...Throughout college and later, I grew to revere contemporary writers such as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Russo, Ann Tyler, Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. My love for books continued. I can't imagine living through the '80s without reading Tom...
The Hindu, January 31, 2009
...feminism, positing it squarely in our times. The writers are heavyweight word-wielders if not exactly vigilantes of feminism: Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Margaret Atwood and Buchi Emecheta. The book takes as its pivot...
Tampa Bay Online, January 28, 2009
...he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel 'A Mercy' in the Nov. 3 issue of the New Yorker. Two of Updike's most memorable characters, Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom and Henry Bech, became...
Concord Monitor, January 28, 2009
...he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy in the Nov. 3 issue of the New Yorker. 'He had a remarkably wide range of literary interests that was never in my view superficial...
Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2009
...he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel 'A Mercy,' in the Nov. 3, 2008, issue of the New Yorker. By the late 1980s, Updike had achieved what a Times writer called 'the near royal...
Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2009
...he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel 'A Mercy,' in the Nov. 3, 2008, issue of the New Yorker. By the late 1980s, Updike had achieved what a Times writer called 'the near royal...
St Louis American, January 26, 2009
...Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Others Celebrate Black History Month on BN.com National Book Award winner Annette Gordon-Reed visits the Barnes & Noble Studio The Barnes & Noble Studio (www. BN.com/Studio...
New York Times, January 25, 2009
...were well-received last year but not named finalists, like ?How Fiction Works? by James Wood, ?A Mercy? by Toni Morrison and ?Netherland,? by Joseph O?Neill. Two honorary prizes were also announced: A lifetime achievement award for the American center of...
Lakeland Ledger, January 25, 2009
...'A Mercy,' the latest novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, is only 167 pages long. But it is not a fast read, The Ledger's Book Club agrees. It also is not an easy read, the members said. Morrison...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 24, 2009
...her second book, 'Disquiet,' a novella, has been endorsed by such literary notables as J.M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison...
FOX 10 Phoenix, January 24, 2009
...Kittredge' were the other fiction finalists. Critics bypassed three of last year's most well reviewed fiction books: Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy,' Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' and Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Unaccustomed Earth.' Helene Cooper's 'The House On Sugar...
The Record, January 24, 2009
...A black child living in a white man's world -- what is 'a mercy?' In this novel, Toni Morrison gives a new face to the 1680 U.S. slave trade. Through the eyes of 'we,' Florens, a negro girl who is given away by her mother, describes her...
Washington Post, January 21, 2009
...As the Advanced Placement English class began reading Toni Morrison's new bestseller, Cardozo High School teacher Frazier O'Leary, who is white, warned his students, most of them black: The nation's only living Nobel prizewinner in literature...
Washington Post, January 21, 2009
...As the Advanced Placement English class began reading Toni Morrison's new bestseller, Cardozo High School teacher Frazier O'Leary, who is white, warned his students, most of them black: The nation's only living Nobel prizewinner in literature...
Florida Times-Union, January 20, 2009
...Top Obama reads include Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Michelle Obama has said her husband has read all the Harry Potter books to his daughters, so it's safe to say he's down...
NewKerala.com, January 19, 2009
...The Golden Notebook' by Doris Lessing; Lincoln's collected writings; 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville; 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison; works of Reinhold Niebuhr; 'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson; and Shakespeare's tragedies. --- IANS...
Chronicle Herald, January 18, 2009
...is not vitriolic or condemnatory. This is a totally engrossing memoir. I even consider the newest novel by Toni Morrison, A Mercy (Alfred A.Knopf, $27.95) a form of family history: if you consider the families that conjoined their histories to become the...
Victoria Leader News, January 15, 2009
...Press. I?ve always hoped that brilliance rubs off on you. Reading writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney discuss their lives, work and worlds is entertaining and thought-provoking. Plus, I think I really am just a smidgen...
Diverse, January 15, 2009
...any need to examine race. Recently, a Baylor colleague mentioned to Pittman having assigned his class to read Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, earlier in the year. 'He said if he'd known the election outcome, he would have chosen something else,'...
Fort Mills Times, January 14, 2009
...YORK The Crown Publishing Group, where authors include President-elect Barack Obama, and the Knopf Doubleday Group, which publishes Toni Morrison and Anne Rice among others, separately announced a wave of promotions and personnel changes on Wednesday,...
MSNBC, January 14, 2009
...won Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his book of poems, 'Heart's Needle' Special feature From American author Toni Morrison to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, meet the writers who have won the highest literary honor. Special feature From...
NPR, January 13, 2009
...the incredible speaker that he is.'Obama likes nonfiction, and he likes novels by great American writers like Toni Morrison and E.L. Doctorow. And he can help sell . When he's seen reading a book on a plane or carrying one in his hand during his travels,...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2009
...magical in Phillips' rendering, biblical and cleansing. But this isn't magical realism. It's more like what Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich can do at their best, using language to cut so close to the human heart that the differences between us are...
TMC Net, January 7, 2009
...coming. 'Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir,' by Michael Greenberg, about his daughter's psychotic breakdown. 'A Mercy,' by Toni Morrison, about the human cost of slavery. 'John Lennon: The Life,' by Philip Norman, about the renowned Beatle. --- ABOUT THE...
Columbus Dispatch, January 7, 2009
...a lot of businesses in this country,' said Amanda Urban, a literary agent who represents Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison, among other authors. Venerable houses -- including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon...
Columbus Dispatch, January 7, 2009
...a lot of businesses in this country,' said Amanda Urban, a literary agent who represents Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison, among other authors. Venerable houses -- including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon...
Sun-Journal, January 5, 2009
...the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience.- 'A Mercy,' by Toni Morrison: This companion (of sorts) to the Nobel laureate's 'Beloved' is set in the waning days of the 17th century, when a slave offers up her daughter to a...
Star Press, December 28, 2008
...years. $28, Scribner, at mass retailers and book stores. A Mercy, the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, revisits the themes of family and slavery she covered so well in her earlier Beloved. $23.95, Knopf, at book stores and mass retailers....
Amsterdam News, December 26, 2008
...?America?s most honored living author,? Nobel Prize winner and novelist Toni Morrison spoke to a sold-out crowd at the 92nd Street Y ?Voice of Literature? reading series on Monday, Dec.8. This fascinating evening began with Morrison (?Song of...
KansasCity.com, December 22, 2008
...Toni Morrison has a little trick for judging character. Shes tried it on Tiger Woods, on the Mona Lisa and why not? on Barack Obama, too. You know, hes got a...
Oxford Press, December 21, 2008
...India on a ship called ?The Ibis.? I can?t wait for the next book. ?A Mercy? by Toni Morrison (Knopf, $23.95). In ?A Mercy,? Toni Morrison explores slavery before it became a form of institutionalized racism. In the 1680s slavery came in...
The New Republic Online, December 11, 2008
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Bradenton Herald, December 7, 2008
...Toni Morrison has a little trick for judging character. She?s tried it on Tiger Woods, on the Mona Lisa and ? why not? ? on Barack Obama, too. ?You know...
Am1220.ca, December 3, 2008
...longtime home to E.L. Doctorow and Maya Angelou; the Knopf Publishing Group, a literary institution that includes Toni Morrison and John Updike; and the Crown Publishing Group, known for such political authors as Obama and Ann Coulter. Applebaum's Bantam...
Macon Telegraph, December 3, 2008
...longtime home to E.L. Doctorow and Maya Angelou; the Knopf Publishing Group, a literary institution that includes Toni Morrison and John Updike; and the Crown Publishing Group, known for such political authors as Obama and Ann Coulter. Applebaum's Bantam...
The Final Call, December 2, 2008
...her children rather than witness her return to slavery. Similarly, in this depiction of Margaret Garner?s life, Toni Morrison, who was responsible for writing the libretto, slightly revises the story, making it more or less like a heart-wrenching love...
Breitbart.com, December 1, 2008
...Spanish-language women writers 35 or younger living in the United States or Mexico. Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Colombia, Toni Morrison from the United States and Seamus Heaney from Ireland offered their support for the Aura Estrada Prize in memory of a...
Boston Herald, November 29, 2008
...by Wally Lamb (Harper) 6. The Gate House, by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing) 7. A Mercy, by Toni Morrison (Knopf) 8. The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 9. The Private Patient, by P. D. James (Knopf) NONFICTION 1....
New York Times, November 28, 2008
...toni morrison, Video Previous post Book Review Podcast Next post They Bash Horses, Don?t They? Add your comments... Name Required E-mail Required, will not be published Comment Comments are moderated...
Modern Maturity, November 24, 2008
... Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/Corbis Outline Newsmaker Toni Morrison Marilyn Milloy, January & February 2009 The Nobel laureate imagines a world where race doesnt matter In her new book, A Mercy (Knopf, 2008), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni...
NPR, November 24, 2008
...Set in 17th century America, Toni Morrison's new novel is the story of a slave girl whose mother gives her away to a stranger in a desperate attempt to secure her a better future. Maureen...
Poughkeepsie Journal, November 23, 2008
...In both print and her public persona, Toni Morrison is an original thinker. She once famously called Bill Clinton our first black president. Now in the month in which the country elected Barack Obama president, the Nobel laureate...
Austin American Statesman, November 22, 2008
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literacyspace: literacy & library cightings, October 22, 2009
...beat from my newspaper days eons ago in Lorain, Ohio -- a steel town near Cleveland -- where Toni Morrison once lived. Believe me, I didn't see many welfare mothers with shelf after self of Dickens and the rest, or even romance novels. Today millions of...
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and, October 22, 2009
...author Min Lieskovsky on his arm, reports the New York Post. The guest list also included Tina Brown, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Oliver Stone and Annie Leibovitz. Lieskovsky, a Chinese/Hungarian Harvard grad, had written in ElleGirl last year: “I’m...
A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, October 21, 2009
...The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Illustration of The Master and Margarita The Go-Between L.P. Hartley Beloved Toni Morrison...
Linus's Blanket, October 20, 2009
...I just finished reading A Mercy , by Toni Morrison , and I loved the story. Morrison’s stories and storytelling are always so complicated and intricate, leaving me swinging wildly from one opinion to the next on the characters...
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories, October 18, 2009
...X Close 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...
Reading Matters, October 12, 2009
...Wrath by John Steinbeck Night by Elie Wiesel On the Beach by Neville Shute The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Lord of the Flies by William Golding I compiled a similar list in December 2007, although I called it "harrowing reads". I'm sure I could probably...
orgtheory.net, October 8, 2009
...are some of the titles I’ve come up with: Black No More – George Schuyler Beloved – Toni Morrison A Mercy – Toni Morrison The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison Kindred – Octavia Butler The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears – Dinaw...
Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent, October 8, 2009
...today that would never have found a publisher in a previous era. You think they would have published Toni Morrison in the era of Herman Melville? (nope!) What about Jonathan Franzen in the era of Jane Austen? (nope!) Or an openly gay author like David...
Read Street, October 8, 2009
...-- or any other wildly popular mass market writer should win the Nobel. And many past winners (V.S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, are utterly deserving) But the prizes risk becoming a parody of themselves if they routinely exclude American...
ChattahBox News Blog, October 8, 2009
...winner was France’s Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. The last American writer to win the Nobel was Toni Morrison, in 1993...
Book Blog, October 6, 2009
...Nobel laureates in literature: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/ The last American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was Toni Morrison (1993). ...
TheSmokingCocktail.com, October 5, 2009
...Merriam Julie of the Wolves , by Jean Craighead George Kaffir Boy , by Mark Mathabane The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters , by Lynda Madaras Fallen Angels ,...
TakePart Social Action Network™, October 2, 2009
...that doesn’t mean you can’t keep reading these fabulous and scandalous literary works of art, like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.I read The Bluest Eye ten years ago and loved it. Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1993, Ms. Morrison wrote a...
TakePart Social Action Network™, October 2, 2009
...that doesn’t mean you can’t keep reading these fabulous and scandalous literary works of art, like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.I read The Bluest Eye ten years ago and loved it. Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1993, Ms. Morrison wrote a...
Mad Bibliophile, September 30, 2009
...Merriam Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters, by Lynda Madaras Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean...
A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, September 29, 2009
...the staying power and delay factor. I am surprised that one of my all-time favorite book, Beloved by Toni Morrison, does not make this memory check. And this brings me to my question for my dear readers: How do you judge a book? Do you favorites reflect...
the bookworm, September 29, 2009
...title: Beloved author: Toni Morrison genre: fiction/supernatural pages: 324 published: 1987 first line: 124 was spiteful. rated: 4 out of 5 Having read and enjoyed Sula by Toni Morrison, I was excited to finally...
Kathy C's MySpace Blog, September 29, 2009
...human sexuality." 6. Ulysses by James Joyce - No specific reference as to why 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison - sexual material 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding - "demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal" 9. 1984...
Bookish, September 28, 2009
...name: a-h , author last name: i-q , genre: fiction , genre: history , story review Two Reviews Title: A Mercy Author: Toni Morrison Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 196 First Line: "Don't be afraid. My telling can't hurt you in spite of what I have done...
The Missouri Review, September 27, 2009
...on sexuality and sexual health. I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and was surprised to see that Toni Morrison’s Beloved was actually removed and banned at one of the local high schools in 2009. I thought it was funny that in North Stafford,...
The Octogon, September 27, 2009
...getting into another one too, and I picked up and started about 3 others before settling on the Toni Morrison (see further down on my sidebar), further supporting my theory that my reading head had gone on its own holiday without me! Hopefully my reading...
Texas Oasis, September 27, 2009
...Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Color Purple by Alice Walker Ulysses by James Joyce Beloved by Toni Morrison The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1984 by George Orwell Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Catch-22 by...
the bookworm, September 27, 2009
...sticking his tongue out...lol. This past week i've been emersed in a book called Beloved by Toni Morrison. Taking place shortly after the Civil War, its the story of a woman named Sethe and her daughter Denver, who live in a house that has been haunted...
She Is Too Fond Of Books ..., September 27, 2009
...a collection of essays about censorship; written by some of today’s most talented writers, and edited by Toni Morrison. The book was published by HarperStudio/HarperCollins in May 2009. Here’s what one publicist had to say about Burn This Book : ...
Crazed Teacups, September 27, 2009
...Wasafiri , a literary magazine I've never heard of, asked 25 "acclaimed international writers", most of whom I've never heard of, to name which book they thought most shaped world literature over the last 25 years. My ignorance of these writers...
Her Own Self, September 26, 2009
...by Harper Lee _x_ The Color Purple by Alice Walker __ Ulysses by James Joyce _x_ Beloved by Toni Morrison _x_ The Lord of the Flies by William Golding _x_ 1984 by George Orwell _x_ Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov _x_ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck _x_...
Well-Mannered Frivolity, September 26, 2009
...of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George 33. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane 34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras 36. Fallen Angels by Walter...
Indiana University Press blog, September 26, 2009
...Today marks the beginning of the annual Banned Books Week , during which the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment are celebrated. In honor of this occasion, I'm listing the some of the banned and challenged classics from the...
Book Chatter and other stuff..., September 24, 2009
...A Mercy Toni Morrison Pub. Date: November 2008 Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group Format: Compact Disc ISBN-13: 9780739332542 ISBN: 0739332546 Edition Description: Unabridged, 4 CDs The blurb from the publisher: In the...
Praxis: Thinking, Being, & Doing, September 24, 2009
...by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6. Ulysses by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9. 1984 by George Orwell 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 15. Catch-22...
Recorded Books K-12 Blog, September 23, 2009
...by Khaled Hosseini The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Go Ask Alice by Anonymous/Beatrice Sparks Bridge to...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, September 23, 2009
...Merriam Julie of the Wolves , by Jean Craighead George Kaffir Boy , by Mark Mathabane The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters , by Lynda Madaras Fallen Angels ,...
The Education Supply Playground, September 21, 2009
...s poem “O Captain! My Captain”; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”; Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel lecture; and many other business, science, and financial texts; and other materials. For more information about...
Book Nut, September 15, 2009
...in my cozy armchair, snuggled with one of my kitties. A favorite author? BC: Officially I might say Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood. Off the record, I might say Charlaine Harris. A favorite genre? BC: Lately I've been devouring fictionalized accounts of...
Books of gold, September 14, 2009
...we have top notch writers such as Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, Cynthia Ozick, Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison . I feel that I am in the company of excellent colleagues". Take that Mr Engdahl! But of course Mr Roth is himself an "isolated, insular"...
Savvy Verse & Wit, September 13, 2009
...Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman 9. Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates 10. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 11. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 12. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King 13. Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro 14. The Greatest...
pages turned, September 8, 2009
...waiting for this one to become available at the library, so ordered it when my son needed a Toni Morrison for class to bump us up into free shipping territory. And facing out: The Pattern in the Carpet . Margaret Drabble. I've been reading Drabble for...
Fluttering Butterflies, September 7, 2009
...like: Wicked Lovely (Melissa Marr) Favorite time of day: Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer) Your life is: A Mercy (Toni Morrison) What is life to you: Cracked Up to Be (Courtney Summers) Your fear: The Savage (David Almond) What is the best advice you have...
Books 'N Border Collies, September 6, 2009
...Isaac Bashevis Singer Eudora Welty John Gardner Gabriel Garcia Marquez Philip Larkin James Baldwin William Gaddis Harold Bloom Toni Morrison Alice Munro Peter Cary Stephen King You think this list is great? Wait until you see some of the others!!...
» Menthol-Guy, August 24, 2009
...buy it for PHP140 at Booksale. In Booksale terms, man, it’s expensive (imagine, I recently bought a Toni Morrison hardbound for PHP20). I’m also reading Shakespeare’s Othello (required for my Lit class) and it’s just neat. I can’t say anything...
In the Middle, August 20, 2009
...signed edition , which he begged me to read, p. 393) Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book (p. 294) Toni Morrison, A Mercy (p. 3) Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth (p. 0) Harry Turtledove, The Gladiator: A Tale of Crosstime Traffic (another Alex...
John Green's Weblog, August 19, 2009
...Looking for Alaska in passing: "The 11 written objections to Brooklyn’s collection include complaints about “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison (sexual content), and “Looking for Alaska,” by John Green (obscenity and denigration of religion)." First,...
Parlour Magazine, August 17, 2009
...Whitney Houston LP Preview: Listen Now! - August 14th, 2009 Sexy Jelly... - August 14th, 2009 PLR Links!: Toni Morrison, Politics of Solange's Hair, John Edwards IS the Father + MORE! - August 14th, 2009 Too Short = Steely Misses The Bay - August 13th,...
DPL News & Views, August 14, 2009
...1954), John Steinbeck (1962), Saul Bellow (1976), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Czeslaw Milosz (1980), Joseph Brodsky (1987), and Toni Morrison (1993...
Band of Thebes, August 10, 2009
...Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, Barbara Pym, Shirley Hazzard, Peter Carey, Orhan Pamuk, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, and Toni Morrison. Among many others. Obviously, all lists are scattershot. But really...
Fresh Ink Books, August 9, 2009
...colour, or that celebrate racial diversity, came your w ay this week? Reviews of interest: A Mercy by Toni Morrison (African America) Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani (Nigerian) What We All Long For by Dionne Brand (African Canadian) Through Black Spruce...
Black-Eyed Susan's, August 2, 2009
...Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Paradise by Toni Morrison (hardcover) Check out these links: White Privilege and Children's Publishing at Tockla's Happy Blogoversary to Diana! Reading Rainbow at...
Judi's Mind Over Matter, August 1, 2009
...Pat Conroy 7. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout 8. One Mississippi by Mark Childress 9. A Mercy by Toni Morrison 10. Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson 11. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher 12. Going Down South by Bonnie J. Glover...
Back to Books, July 31, 2009
...4****) 132. Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo (5*****) FAVOURITE Book of the Month 133. a mercy by Toni Morrison (2.5**) 134. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (5*****) 135. Later, Gator by Laurence Yep (4****) 136. The Trail of Tears by...
LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News, June 8, 2009
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Books, June 5, 2009
...“You have to read, you have to know, you have to have access to knowledge,” said Toni Morrison , just weeks after one of her own novels, “ Song of Solomon ,” was banned from (and then reinstated to) a reading list at a Michigan high school ....
Fahrenheit 451: Freedom to Read, June 4, 2009
...Toni Morrison's books have been challenged on a consistent basis. Hear what she has to say about censorship. According to an Associated Press article by Hillel Italie , Morrison, 78, has...
ArtsBeat, June 4, 2009
...There was something of the cozy old world of publishing about Toni Morrison and the humorist Fran Lebowitz coming together to talk about book banning at a cocktail party on Wednesday night — a welcome reprieve from the ugly realities of declining...
Simpy's Feed, May 31, 2009
...We launched the original Kindle in November 2007. Hear what Charlie Rose, Toni Morrison, and others had to say about the original Kindle. To view this video download the Flash Player (version 9.0.0 or higher) Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and author...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, May 23, 2009
...As Darby Dixon III has suggested , with the exception of Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Dick Meyer’s list of great books written after 1900 has all the literary sensibilities of a grand wizard. To counter Meyer’s vanilla extract sensibilities, here...
Taccuino di traduzione 2.0, May 22, 2009
...policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas. Toni Morrison , Nobel Lecture, 7 dicembre 1993...
Book Calendar, May 22, 2009
...Strand was showing Burn This Book Pen Writers Speak Out On The Power of the Word , Edited by Toni Morrison. The book looks very interesting. I also spent some time going over the patron request sheet for new titles and wrote down some suggested titles...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, May 21, 2009
...If Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is as progressive as we take her to be, I hope she’ll soon speak up against the DRM-enabled turnoff of text to speech in Kindle editions of her...
The Book Bench, May 19, 2009
...publishers’ bidding war. Yoko Ono will judge a competition of London commuters’ Twitter haikus. “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison, has been banned at a high school in Shelby, Michigan...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, May 15, 2009
...by Amazon for Kindle books, reports show. At least 40 e-books from Random House, including major titles from Toni Morrison and Stephen King, can no longer use the Kindle 2’s TTS feature to read the books aloud. Random House hasn’t officially...
Cool toys and Gadgets, May 15, 2009
...on their offer. So far, they have disabled text-to-speech on about 40 titles which include books from Toni Morrison and Stephen King. This feature seems to have been turned off quietly for these titles. In other words, nothing official has come from...
Engadget, May 14, 2009
...House -- has thrown the dreaded "kill switch" on about 40 of its titles, including authors such as Toni Morrison, and, ironically, Stephen King (who you will remember was part of the Kindle 2's launch ). Random House disabled the function without much...
Consumerist, May 13, 2009
...publishers turn off the "read it to me" feature of books on the Kindle. MobileRead members note that Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Stephen King's The Stand both have TTS disabled, and it seems to be on an author-by-author basis instead of by publisher or...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, May 13, 2009
...Does Toni Morrison , the great Nobel Prize-winning novelist, know? A Mercy , her 2008 best-seller, now has text-to-speech disabled in the Kindle edition . This is happening to other Amazon books, too , as noted...
Wikipedia - Recent changes [en], May 7, 2009
...Jump to: navigation , search Revision as of 01:15, 8 May 2009 ( edit ) 167.206.48.221 ( talk ) (Toni Morrison's Jazz is a great example of stream of consciousness. We go from the consciousness of an omnipotent narration to...
Under the Blue Light, May 4, 2009
...O.B., diving into my summer reading list. My list includes, but isn't limited to: Paradise by Toni Morrison Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides...
scholarship@kkc, April 30, 2009
...I have been asked to recommend some books and I will start off with Beloved by Toni Morrison. The book was written in 1987 and it is a book that will open your eyes up to slavery and its legacy. Toni Morrison won the Nobel and Pulitzer...
scholarship@kkc, April 30, 2009
...I have been asked to recommend some books and I will start off with Beloved by Toni Morrison. The book was written in 1987 and it is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Beloved is a book that will open...
thelastnoel, April 29, 2009
...class! There was something personally uplifting about this for me. I read the spectrum: from John Irving to Toni Morrison. Seeing young people making an effort to read about other cultures other than their own was really inspiring. And isn't that the way...
Scribd Feed, April 26, 2009
...2 April 2, 2007 Shirley Temple and Society’s Ideal of Beauty The novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, projects to readers an image of beauty which revolves around the idea of whiteness, as well as society’s standard and idealization of beauty....
Black Politics on the Web, April 24, 2009
...Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison says her campaign to commemorate African-American historical sites has brought her home. Morrison was in Ohio on Thursday to dedicate a memorial bench in Oberlin, a stop on the...
Bibliobibuli, April 21, 2009
...literary prizes internationally is great recognition for a first novel. The great surprise of the list is that Toni Morrison (who some of you saw as a dead cert) didn't make it either! Three of the shortlisted authors are American though Ellen Feldman...
One-Minute Book Reviews, April 11, 2009
...record as saying that the frontrunner for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction would seem to be Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy , which I haven’t read. Morrison is the only Nobel Prize–winner in the hunt. And I think it’s going to be tough for...
Bibliobibuli, April 11, 2009
...media only reports those, not the long path of writers like John Irving, Richard Ford, Anne Tyler and Toni Morrison. The notion of the ‘first book with flaws’ is gone; now we see a novelist selling 9,000 hardcovers and 15,000 paperbacks, and they see...
Reading Room, April 9, 2009
...If so, how many books are you currently reading? Six. Angel of Wrath by Bill Myers. Beloved by Toni Morrison. Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Selected Poems by Robert Lowell . Also re-reading Catch 22. 3) Is...
Books, April 7, 2009
...Doris Lessing · Lincoln’s collected writings · “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville · “Song of Solomon,” Toni Morrison · Works of Reinhold Niebuhr · “Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson ...
OH! BOOKS...PAPER...REAL LIFE..., April 6, 2009
...little ones’ interest lo these many years. The two I can think of: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott. Has anyone read either of them? What do you think? Your answer may alter their position in my TBR stack which currently...
Book News, Book Reviews and Recommendations :: The, April 6, 2009
...in . . . perfect pitch! Praise for Marlon James . . . [Marlon James is] a young writer who “brings to mind early Toni Morrison, Jessica Hagedorn, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez…” -Kaylie Jones Purchase The Book of Night Women today!...
A Progressive on the Prairie, April 4, 2009
...Bulletin Board It’s Jazz Appreciation Month . Go forth and celebrate . Bookish Linkage Toni Morrison’s A Mercy won the annual Tournament of Books, besting City of Refuge in the finals. The six finalists for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize...
Scribd Feed, April 3, 2009
...by Ian McEwan The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Beloved by Toni Morrison The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Breakfas...
First Book Blog, April 3, 2009
...Books winner was chosen this week – see who won between Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and read the judges’ comments. Battle of the (Kids’) Books Sad that the Tournament of Books is over? No worries – a tournament...
Literary License (short reviews, real opinions), April 2, 2009
...Toni Morrison's A Mercy won this year's Tournament of Books, beating out Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge in the final championship round. All of the judges of previous...
Fetch me my axe, April 1, 2009
...tip, I've been meaning to give Octavia Butler another go, maybe Kindred, maybe something else. I want Toni Morrison's essay collection "What Moves at the Margin;" I liked "Playing in the Dark" a lot. ( "Writing Without Whining" is something I could...
The Millions, March 31, 2009
... Bold Prediction: A Mercy Wins the Pulitzer By now you've read the result , Toni Morrison's A Mercy edged out Tom Piazza's City of Refuge to win The Tournament of Books. Now, if I were a betting man, and it were possible to...
Galaxy British Book Awards Blog, March 21, 2009
...by Conrad, Joyce and Christopher Isherwood. US President Barack Obama chooses two acknowledged classics, in Moby Dick and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, as well as a more recent masterpiece, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, about which it was difficult...
biblioklept, March 20, 2009
...The new issue of The Believer showed up in my overstuffed mailbox today. It’s the film issue, featuring a DVD of short films about Jean-Luc Goddard’s travels in the U.S. My second favorite Jean-Luc! (Seriously, Alphaville is great, but it’s no...
Book Case at The Times, March 20, 2009
...Prize: The longlist for the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction has been announced . The 20 author longlist includes Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson and Deirdre Madden. The six author shortlist for the prize, which recognises achievement by female...
ArtsBeat, March 18, 2009
...female writer, announced on Wednesday its long list of 20 contenders , including Marilynne Robinson (for her novel “Home” ), Toni Morrison (for “A Mercy” ), Allegra Goodman ( “Intuition” ) and Curtis Sittenfeld ( “American Wife” );...
SAJAforum, March 18, 2009
...Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows Bloomsbury Pakistani/British 5th Novel They are in some pretty fine company, including Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Here's the formal press release...
Omnivoracious, March 17, 2009
...Goodbye, Dart League King : Today's book tourney action : Jonathan Eig out-contrarians the hipster contrarians by going with Toni Morrison's A Mercy , which "rattled [the] bones" of judge Jonathan Eig although he'd long since "tired of her schtick," over...
Telegraph Books, March 17, 2009
...The Orange Prize for Fiction sees Birmingham social worker Gaynor Arnold lined up against the American literary heavyweight Toni Morrison for this year's prize. Here is the full list of the 20 nominees...
arc90 blog, March 13, 2009
...traditional but I can't imagine changing how I read. It was a bit disheartening to learn that Toni Morrison , one of my favorite American authors, is a fan of the Kindle. However, it won't stop me from showing off my autographed copy of her novel, Love ,...
The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrade, March 13, 2009
...on what I’ve read thus far, I’m having a hard time finding a place to categorize Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Song of Solomon . For me, this is a good problem to have. Anyway, this blog will be much drier in tone and the primary purpose is...
Sycamore Review, March 10, 2009
...Main | Dublin Bids to Become "City of Literature" » A Jury of Her Peers: An Extensive New Look at Women Writers On the whole, I tend to shy away from books on women writers. I feel targeted, for one. Because I am a writer and a woman, it is assumed...
The Millions, March 10, 2009
...booksellers in our ranks, we offer our own "Staff Picks" in a feature appearing irregularly. A Mercy by Toni Morrison recommended by Edan Now, Toni Morrison doesn't need my staff pick (I'm sure it pales in comparison to her Nobel Prize in Literature),...
mental_floss Blog, March 9, 2009
...of sacred rituals, which were revealed in the details of the art (page 65) 07. What, according to Toni Morrison, serves as a tribute or memorial to the millions of African-American slaves? A. Her novel Beloved (page 50) 08. The transportation system of...
A Line A Day, March 8, 2009
...Lurie 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1992 A...
annabelle, March 8, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Ramblin' with Roger, March 8, 2009
...show), she has also been a speaker on what they used to call "juvenile diabetes" and stem-cell research. Toni Morrison (pictured) Possibly the author I've read the most. Rosa Parks There's so much myth around her defining act. She wasn't just tired, as...
OBW, March 7, 2009
...Blume Alex Haley Terry McMillan Roderick O. Solomon Maya Angelou Michael Eric Dyson Pearl Cleage E. Lynn Harris Toni Morrison Nikki Giovanni Sapphire Tananarive Due Colin Channer Tina McElroy Ansa Octavia Butler Iceberg Slim James Baldwin Richard Wright...
Lag Liv, March 5, 2009
...PM Trannyhead said... I JUST got a Kindle and am SOO so excited. When I've finished my Toni Morrison and Christopher Moore books I have lined up, I'll check out the Outlander series. It sounds fun. 3/5/09 9:49 PM RJ said... ooh, yes, I love Katherine...
Hate My Way, March 3, 2009
...E. Lockhart Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen The Dart League King - Keith Lee Morris A Mercy - Toni Morrison Steer Towards Rock - Fae Myenne Ng Netherland - Joseph O’Neill City of Refuge - Tom Piazza Home - Marilynne Robinson Harry - Revised, Mark...
One-Minute Book Reviews, March 3, 2009
...are named on April 20, though the history of those awards would seem to give the edge to Toni Morrison’s A Mercy . A review of and reading group guide to Netherland appeared in separate posts on One-Minute Book Reviews on June 24, 2008. The paperback...
Beatrice, March 1, 2009
...it is, for the “magic realism” can arguably be found under any condition of oppression, as witnessed by Toni Morrison’s work or Terry Gilliam’s films.) Vilnius lives for the reader through a myriad of details, everything from “Bird’s Milk”...
Professor Kim's News Notes, March 1, 2009
...Waldo Emerson 14. Martin Luther King 15. James Weldon Johnson 16, John Mc Phee 17. Helen Epstein 18. Toni Morrison 19. David Mura 20. Naomi Shihab Nye 21. Sekou Sundiata 22. Gwendolyn Brooks 23. Jessie Fauset 24. Maria Stewart 25. Phillis Wheatley And...
The Happy Go Lucky Bachelor., February 28, 2009
...Barnes 2. Edwidge Danticat 3. Tananarive Due 4. Walter Mosely 5. Robert E. Howard 6. Charles Saunders 7. Toni Morrison 8. Jemlle Hill 9. Langston Hughes 10. Cornell West 11. Notorious BIG 12. Jay-Z 13. Nas 14. Lance Tooks 15. Alex Haley 16. Sun Tzu 17....
Conversational Reading, February 27, 2009
...from Wyatt Mason, so it's good to see him in the current New York Review ($$$) with Toni Morrison's A Mercy.The piece is the sort of close reading/deep interpretory analysis that I've grown accustomed to reading from Mason, but unfortunately his general...
The Strange Death of Liberal America, February 26, 2009
...They say hearing voices is a sign of insanity. In Toni Morrison it is a sign of genius. Yet Morrison’s recent novel has earned some indifferent–even negative-reviews. It averages a lowly three stars at Amazon. Such is the fate of...
The Elegant Variation, February 24, 2009
...The Stories of Bernard Malamud William Trevor: Collected Stories James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time; Giovanni's Room Toni Morrison: Sula; Beloved Henry Green: Loving; Concluding; Nothing Howard Nemerov: Collected Poems AS Byatt: Still Life VS Naipaul: A...
TwoMindsFull, February 23, 2009
...By Carleen Brice Special to The Denver Post Quick, name 10 black authors. If you got stuck after Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Walter Mosley and Terry McMillan, you're not alone, especially if you are not black. One reason for this is that publishers tend...
Young Black Professional Guide, February 23, 2009
...our friends over at Write Black could offer up more in-depth recommendations, are Best African-American Fiction: 2009 and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy . Check out Anika’s review of Morrison’s novel, titled 5 good things (and 5 bad things) about ‘A...
ART:Jamaica, February 21, 2009
...the transposition of slavery and the late nineteenth century in some historical accounts seems to aptly capture what Toni Morrison characterizes as "re-memory" among enslaved Africans and their descendants, the ruptures in space and time, the...
The James Logan Courier, February 18, 2009
...a book you really want to read but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her...
Pofrika, February 17, 2009
...lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." Toni Morrison, ‘Beloved’ Karl Marx, ‘Communist Manifesto’ Umberto Eco, ‘The Name of the Rose’ Thomas Mofolo, ‘Moeti oa Bochabela’ Ngugi wa Thiongo, ‘A Grain...
The Column, Reloaded, February 9, 2009
...1949), Ernest Hemingway (1954), John Steinbeck (1962), Saul Bellow (1976), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Joseph Brodsky (1987), and Toni Morrison (1993). Most of the earlier prize winners were pretty heavy hitters at the bar, too. Sorry. Couldn't resist....
Varieties of Unreligious Experience, February 7, 2009
...the utmost geniality, casually sweating references—Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Vico, Hugh Blair, Cicero, Dante, Winckelmann, Gombrich, Oakeshott, er, Toni Morrison, and so on, not to mention plenty of Hayden White. At the end of it, none...
camren, February 6, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
riya569087, February 4, 2009
...gendered and sexual idiosyncrasies of African American culture-works by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. In turn, this book tries to present another story-one in which people who presumably manifest the...
kiersten, February 3, 2009
...Click The Picture To Look at The Littlest Prices For Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality! Click Here To Purchase Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality at Amazon.com View the Table of Contents . Read the...
Fluttering Butterflies, February 2, 2009
...read in January 1. Princess Diaries - Ten Out of Ten by Meg Cabot 2. A Mercy by Toni Morrison 3. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 4. Affinity by Sarah Waters 5. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling...
Man Bytes Blog, February 1, 2009
...Round Table, Lola of Game + Life|Balance sets the bar for this month’s topic as she discusses Toni Morrison’s Beloved in Can Slavery Be a Game? Jan. 6 - Travis of The Autumnal City turns his eminently capable and well-qualified eye towards a sci-fi...
Man Bytes Blog, January 31, 2009
...Round Table, Lola of Game + Life|Balance sets the bar for this month’s topic as she discusses Toni Morrison’s Beloved in Can Slavery Be a Game? Jan. 6 - Travis of The Autumnal City turns his eminently capable and well-qualified eye towards a sci-fi...
One-Minute Book Reviews, January 30, 2009
...and autobiography or memoir. The big news this year is the books that aren’t on the list: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland . Both novels have won stellar reviews, and I predicted that O’Neill would win this one. (Neither...
Susan Grant's Come Fly With Me Blog, January 29, 2009
...all politics, though. From fiction debuts by Uwem Akpan, Nam Le, and Saša Stanišic´ to works from masters Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, from a biography of Shakespeare's wife to a chronicle of Sixties “girls like us,” and...
Becky's Book Reviews, January 29, 2009
...Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (a) My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (b) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (b) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (b) East of Eden by John Steinbeck (b) Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield (b) Love Mansfield Park by Jane Austen...
Latest News, January 28, 2009
...he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison’s novel “A Mercy,” in the Nov. 3, 2008, issue of the New Yorker. Early in his career, Updike said he wrote most often about the world he came...
KR Blog, January 27, 2009
...mean we don’t exist. Yet when we pick up, say, A Mercy in the bookstore, we think, “Toni Morrison made this.” No disrespect to our reigning American Nobel Laureate, but that’s absurd. She certainly created most of the literature inside the vessel...
Fosco Lives!, January 27, 2009
...all, this title doesn't have to go to a man.) Again, Fosco believes that the esteem for Toni Morrison is entirely justified. Richard Ford is a possibility, but he's actually pretty good and people don't really talk about him much anymore. We are probably...
slatton blog, January 27, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison x @ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison x @ Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch The Man Without Qualities...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch The Man Without Qualities by Robert...
things mean a lot, January 25, 2009
...Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) 82. Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988) 83. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890) 84. Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) 85. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) (It's good to see I'm not the only one who sees...
ArtsBeat, January 25, 2009
...were well-received last year but not named finalists, like “How Fiction Works” by James Wood, “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison and “Netherland,” by Joseph O’Neill. Two honorary prizes were also announced: A lifetime achievement award for the...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, January 24, 2009
...Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (2004) Michael Moorcock - Mother London (1988) William Morris - News From Nowhere (1890) Toni Morrison - Beloved (1987) Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardor (1969) Audrey Niffenegger -...
Uncertain Principles, January 24, 2009
...Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Mother London by Michael Moorcock News from Nowhere by William Morris Beloved by Toni Morrison The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, January 24, 2009
...Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Mother London by Michael Moorcock News from Nowhere by William Morris Beloved by Toni Morrison The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger...
Valentina's room, January 24, 2009
...24 January 2009 Beloved - Toni Morrison I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this book. It's simply among the best written novels I've ever read. It's also a strange...
nasalroad blog, January 24, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
PalmTree Pundit, January 24, 2009
...Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) 3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987) 4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995) 5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997) 6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001) 7. Maus, Art...
brittney, January 23, 2009
...Click The Picture To View The Bottom Prices For Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality! Click Here To Purchase Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality at Amazon.com View the Table of Contents . Read the Preface ....
The Itinerant Librarian, January 23, 2009
...me for the time I lost reading his overrated tripe. 51. Underworld by Don DeLillo. 50. Beloved by Toni Morrison. 49. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. 48. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin. 47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan...
Black Voices Blogs, January 23, 2009
...the fungus and purchase flip flops for the shower. You'll thank us later! Powell cites books by Toni Morrison and bell hooks, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange, whose very popular 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,'...
Cornellbooksellers.com, January 22, 2009
...Leibowitz (1960) David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988) William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890) Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969)...
reverend mommy's random thoughts, January 22, 2009
...Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) 82. Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988) 83. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890) 84. Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) 85. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) 86. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969) 87....
The Word, January 22, 2009
...Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) 82. Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988) 83. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890) 84. Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) 85. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) 86. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969) 87....
Largehearted Boy, January 22, 2009
...news of an upcoming private Arcade Fire/Jay-Z show for President Obama's staff. KCRW's Bookworm interviews author Toni Morrison. Drowned in Sound has news of a Thom Yorke biography, Thom Yorke: Radiohead & Trading Solo (out February 26th). Ear Farm lists...
Stainless Steel Droppings, January 22, 2009
...Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) 82. Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988) 83. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890) 84. Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987) 85. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) 86. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969) 87....
tBlog: Recent Blog Posts, January 22, 2009
...them, It is to go on a bike ride, fourteen children are own and getting one bike & Toni Morrison Have read her all works. Whether The rides are breathtaking Pueblo Community College or bookstores and libraries is also made of trade told her numerous...
washingtonpost.com - Metro, January 21, 2009
...As the Advanced Placement English class began reading Toni Morrison's new bestseller, Cardozo High School teacher Frazier O'Leary, who is white, warned his students, most of them black: The nation's only living Nobel prizewinner in literature...
henry, January 19, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Scholars and Rogues, January 19, 2009
...Vladimir Nabokov, for sheer delirious delight in the possibilities of language and the seductive power of words. And Toni Morrison, because she approaches her prose like poetry, ruthlessly cutting away the unnecessary until what remains is exactly and...
The Backroom, January 19, 2009
...article describes some of the major novels and histories that have shaped his ideas. From Herman Melville to Toni Morrison, “Mr. Obama tends to take a magpie approach to reading — ruminating upon writers’ ideas and picking and choosing those that...
Sycamore Review, January 19, 2009
...contribution to the realization of the American dream." Past winners include Lucille Clifton, Ossie Davis, Virginia Hamilton, Toni Morrison, Walter Dean Myers, and Sidney Poitier. Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 12:00AM by Erin Blakeslee in...
sanfratello blog, January 17, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, January 16, 2009
...best-placed sector of society to triumph in the world today. Rosemary's Tar Baby, by Ira Levin and Toni Morrison, meanwhile, would presumably see a disparate group of Americans gathering in a Caribbean mansion owned by Satan's daughter. This isn't my...
you're being ridiculous, January 15, 2009
...on CD from the library that I probably wouldn't read otherwise. I listened to a couple of Toni Morrison books on CD, for instance. Toni Morrison is a writer that I've always been a little intimidated by. This year I picked up a book of hers on...
The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrade, January 14, 2009
...gun or running from the cops. I’ve done a little reading, getting about 50 pages deep into Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and another 50 pages into Magic Realism: The Remystification of Narrative . Compared to running over a complete stranger with a...
mean ol' meany, January 11, 2009
...Washington Post and reading a story about Dumbshit Obama! Avoid this book at all costs! Pick up a Toni Morrison book instead if you would rather read something of substance . Charles Martin was able to take a really smart, good dude and turn him into a...
Fluttering Butterflies, January 11, 2009
...they're waiting for the operation. Meg Cabot rocks. I've also started to read A Mercy by Toni Morrison and Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek. I've enjoyed both so far. I don't normally read more than one book at a time but I'd already started...
Scott Topics, January 8, 2009
...of the picture. But if I had to pick the greatest living American novelist? I'd probably pick Toni Morrison . And not for the books that you'd think. I'm not a fan of Beloved , to be honest; at the end of the day, I don't think...
Fluttering Butterflies, January 8, 2009
...Hornby Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (I must have read a review of this somewhere) A Mercy by Toni Morrison (At last! It's rare for my local library to have such a new book in stock!) I also picked up three Thomas the Tank Engine books for Elliot...
Maud Newton, January 7, 2009
...of their characters. The authors represented also include, among others, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca du Maurier, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck, and F. Scott Fitzgerald....
The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrade, January 6, 2009
...instead switch over to Octavia Butler’s Kindred , Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities , Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum , Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Ben Okri’s The Famished Road , and maybe whatever Salman Rushdie I might get as an early...
newall blog, January 6, 2009
...Where to Get Inexpensive Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality - Are They Really Cheap I find great prices for Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality on Ebay.com CLICK PICTURE BELOW to check it out: I really...
The Errant sthete, January 6, 2009
...business was never meant to sustain limousines,” said Amanda Urban, a literary agent who represents Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison , among other authors. Ms. Urban said she believed Bennett Cerf, a founder of Random House , once said something to...
Pofrika, January 5, 2009
...The Magic Mountain Herman Melville, United States, Moby Dick Michael de Montaigne, France, Essays Elsa Morante, Italy, History Toni Morrison, United States, Beloved Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, The Tale of Genji Robert Musil, Austria, The Man Without...
David Thayer, January 5, 2009
...s raining or something. This means you. Binky Steals the Show: Amanda Urban who represents Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison cuts the problem to the quick with this observation: “Books can only support a certain retail price,” she said. “It’s not...
Culturazzi Cognoscente Club, January 4, 2009
...and robbed of all their dignity, a burning death was deemed more welcome than a life of servitude. Toni Morrison ’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved is the story of one such slave and mother who had the willingness to risk everything, for what was...
Books Are King, January 1, 2009
...A Mercy by Toni Morrison Literary fiction. 167 pp. Knopf. 2008. flap copy: A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a...
Valentina's room, January 1, 2009
...- Nation by Terry Pratchett - The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson - Beloved by Toni Morrison - Hellfire by Mia Gallagher Reading recap: Total books read : 69 Fiction : 61 Non-fiction : 8 YA and Kid's : 41 + lots of picture books... Written by...
lillian, January 1, 2009
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD, December 31, 2008
...of representation besets immigrant writers the world over. Whenever they write, they are believed to be representing someone. Toni Morrison in “Paradise Found” for instance, talks of having to answer sociological and political questions during book...
TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD, December 31, 2008
...of representation besets immigrant writers the world over. Whenever they write, they are believed to be representing someone. Toni Morrison in “Paradise Found” for instance, talks of having to answer sociological and political questions during book...
TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD, December 31, 2008
...of representation besets immigrant writers the world over. Whenever they write, they are believed to be representing someone. Toni Morrison in “Paradise Found” for instance, talks of having to answer sociological and political questions during book...
Valentina's room, December 31, 2008
...by Monica Viola 68) Hellfire by Mia Gallagher 67) Fleabee's Fortune by Robin Jarvis 66) Beloved by Toni Morrison 65) Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling 64) Desert of the hearts by Jane Rule 63) The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison 62) How I...
procrastinationchronicles.com, December 30, 2008
...the World by Alistair McCartney - ST Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser - NYT, ST A Mercy by Toni Morrison - NYT, WA What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn - BG Netherland by Joseph O’Neill - Am, MC, NYT Personal Days by Ed Park - T Cleaver...
MissWisabus.com, December 30, 2008
...1980. 1981. 1982. 1983. 1984. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1985. 1986. 1987. Beloved by Toni Morrison 1988. 1989. 1990. 1991. 1992. 1993. 1994. At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales by L.M. Montgomery 1995. 1996. 1997. 1998. 1999...
The Backroom, December 29, 2008
...all politics, though. From fiction debuts by Uwem Akpan, Nam Le, and Saša Stanišic´ to works from masters Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, from a biography of Shakespeare’s wife to a chronicle of Sixties “girls like us,” and...
one tenacious baby mama, December 27, 2008
...Last night Ophelia showed me her copy of Toni Morrison's latest book, A Mercy. This is what's on the inside flap. In the 1600's the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent...
One Book Two Book - Books for Kids of All Ages, December 27, 2008
...If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison Tags: book quote of the week Share This...
Alan Edwards's homepage, December 24, 2008
...a book by Charles D’Ambrosio , who liked a book by Nam Le , who liked a book by Toni Morrison . We discovered that two highly regarded authors (named Charles) were fans of Slash’s memoir this year. And we saw that many of our most admired writers...
The Millions, December 24, 2008
...a book by Charles D'Ambrosio , who liked a book by Nam Le , who liked a book by Toni Morrison . We discovered that two highly regarded authors (named Charles) were fans of Slash's memoir this year. And we saw that many of our most admired writers were...
Incurable Logophilia, December 19, 2008
...why do I think of Gordimer as so different? And why do I put her and writers like Toni Morrison or Milan Kundera or Arundhati Roy into a completely different category? Perhaps because those last writers have such overtly political preoccupations,...
ahmad, December 18, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
biblioklept, December 17, 2008
...But. Let us move on. There were a couple of fantastic highlights in 2008, of course, most notably Toni Morrison’s A Mercy , a novel on which we cannot heap enough praise. In a time of overstuffed, overlong novels, A Mercy is rich and complex yet lean...
But Enough About Me!, December 17, 2008
...few books: White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Jordan & Walsh (Toni Morrison recommended this book during an NPR interview about her new book) Twilight (on a dare by my niece) Dauntless by Jack Campbell The Three...
mcnary blog, December 12, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Survival of the Book, December 11, 2008
...which chronicles "how writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days." Some show discipline, sure - Toni Morrison writing before dawn, when her children would start to wake, or J.M. Coetzee writing seven days a week - and then you...
germaine blog, December 11, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast, December 9, 2008
...the year in books. Jhumpa Lahiridazzled. Dexter Filkins brought the war home. Toni Morrison found "Mercy." We'll look back on the best reads of '08...
Writer Unboxed, December 9, 2008
...2008 ; three of the five fiction choices were published by Alfred A. Knopf: Steven Millhouser’s Dangerous Laughter, Toni Morrison’s The Mercy and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. Wow. I’d be hard pressed to come up with a list like this. How...
Omnivoracious, December 9, 2008
...unranked ten : Fiction: Cost by Roxana Robinson The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery A Mercy by Toni Morrison The Outlander by Gil Adamson 2666 by Roberto Bolano Nonfiction: The Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham The Hemingses of Monticello by...
The Confabulum, December 8, 2008
...to a second time (or first if you’ve missed them) because they convey both experience and knowledge: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alexander Solzenitzhen’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch While we may find ourselves trapped by...
51stories, December 6, 2008
...have read - albeit lower down, starting on page 2… Amongst them of course, A Mercy by Toni Morrison (highly recommended), Netherlands, by Joseph O’Neill (also highly recommended) a book of short stories by Tobias Wolff ‘Our Story...
Book Case at The Times, December 6, 2008
...With a new book just out and the victory of her preferred presidential candidate, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison speaks to New York Times book review editor Sam Tanenhaus about her new novel A Mercy in this podcast. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Toni...
Jumping off cliffs, December 6, 2008
...the Rye by J. D. Salinger 59. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 60. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 61. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 63. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 64....
Aspire2 Blog, December 5, 2008
...the top ten books of 2008: FICTION DANGEROUS LAUGHTER Thirteen Stories By Steven Millhauser . Excerpt A MERCY By Toni Morrison . First Chapter NETHERLAND By Joseph O’Neill . First Chapter 2666 By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Excerpt...
Sycamore Review, December 4, 2008
...on this list, I can't rave enough about Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth . Also on the list: Toni Morrison, Steven Millhauser, and Joseph O'Neill. Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 12:25PM by Mehdi Okasi | 1 Comment View Printer Friendly...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...– Marina Warner The Crow Road – Iain Banks Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson Jazz – Toni Morrison The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe Black Water – Joyce...
APOOO, December 3, 2008
...Quick how many black authors, other than Terry McMillan, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama (yeah he considers himself black) can you name? Okay if you’re an avid reader of African-American Literature…probably many…and to help you remember...
Black Voices Blogs, December 3, 2008
...a great book to explain the true reason for the season! Simon & Schuster A Mercy (Fiction) by Toni Morrison Knopf, $23.95 We must pay homage to our great authors, because there are so few of them. So Ms. Morrison stays on the list. (Check out her video...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, December 3, 2008
...ridiculously uncritical review (and fawning video interview) with John Updike. It continued with Tanenhaus’s lips nearly licking Toni Morrison to a needlessly sensual premature death . But this afternoon, Sam Tanenhaus proved that The New York Times...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, December 3, 2008
...by Robert Bolano . But even acknowledging the talent of the authors included in the list—from Steven Millhauser and Toni Morrison to Julian Barnes and National Book Award nominee Drew Gilipin Faust —to claim that one publishing house so thoroughly...
helms blog, December 3, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Omnivoracious, December 2, 2008
...New York Times : Sunday Book Review cover: David Gates on A Mercy by Toni Morrison: "'A Mercy' has neither the terrible passion of 'Beloved' — how many times can we ask a writer to go to such a place? — nor the spirited...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, December 2, 2008
...Le, winner of the 2008 National Book Foundation's " 5 Under 35 Award ," used to doubt Toni Morrison's reputation, but changed his mind in an annual blog series. As part of the Millions blog's excellent Year in Reading series, the novelist Le admitted...
ibrahim, December 2, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
The Millions, December 1, 2008
...when the list came out, some people may remember that an immediate, insidious backlash began against the winner, Toni Morrison's Beloved (accusing it, among other things, of being the obvious and politically correct choice), and I'll confess that I, too,...
vassell blog, December 1, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
The Book Book, November 30, 2008
...Native American woman, a white woman, and a black teenage girl. In a brief and characteristically sensual narrative, Toni Morrison creates thumbnail sketches of eight lives brought together in infant America, all products of different desperations. Their...
znetnews.com, November 30, 2008
...Random House, Inc. has made online excerpts available from books by Toni Morrison, Calvin Trillin and thousands of others as publishers continue their push to sell more books …...
Literary Kicks, November 30, 2008
...express her feelings amusingly well. Today’s best article is David Gates’ clear and admiring cover piece on Toni Morrison’s A Mercy . It was only two years ago that I finally read Beloved , and liked it very much. A Mercy also dives into...
51stories, November 30, 2008
...back with newspapers, and think about books and writing. I started a review of A Merci by Toni Morrison , and then came across the New York Times review here , which is such an extensive and comprehensive review that it does not make much sense to...
PhiloBiblos, November 30, 2008
...reviews Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates in the NYTimes . - Also in the Times , David Gates reviews Toni Morrison's new novel, A Mercy . - Richard Cox comments on Lawrence Lessig's new book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy ....
hillary, November 29, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
carrecter blog, November 29, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
Omnivoracious, November 28, 2008
...Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan A Mercy by Toni Morrison Netherland by Joseph O'Neill Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg Lush Life by Richard Price Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of...
Paper Cuts, November 28, 2008
...This week: an extended conversation with Toni Morrison, Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field and best-seller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. The podcast archive page is here...
Book Review, November 28, 2008
...This week: Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, an extended conversation with Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler...
mumm blog, November 26, 2008
...and Lisa Gay Hamilton — you’ll agree with critics everywhere who’ve hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year’s finest films! THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR...
FeelingElephants's Weblog, November 25, 2008
...Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare: Inspirational Quotes: “I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. ” Toni Morrison Posted in CMU news, politics-human rights, politics-tech ...
Black Voices Blogs, November 25, 2008
...either) and came up with this list. BV Books Hot Picks 11.25.08 A Mercy (Fiction) by Toni Morrison Knopf, $23.95 I had to read 'Beloved,' Morrison's tour de force (and winner of the Pulitzer Prize) , three times (yes, three times!) to get the mastery and...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, November 24, 2008
...Latin American novelist to traffic in magic realism, especially since, as Brice observes, "white people already know about Toni Morrison , so please choose something else besides A Mercy ." The authors Brice endorses directly include Martha Southgate ,...
51stories, November 23, 2008
...time to sit and ponder and maybe even write a few things here and there… Meanwhile, I finished Toni Morrison’s A Merci , and what a wonderful book that is. I’m not going to review it here as it takes a bit more than one or two...
Globalclashes, November 22, 2008
...be unforgettable . I'm catching up with my end of the year book list. I have just finished Toni Morrison A Mercy and in my opinion, it is better than her last one Love and profound and perplexing, as almost everything that Morrison writes, to require a...
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary wi, November 21, 2008
...Home Toni Morrison Critiques Writer Obama Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 1:09pm. Alerts A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT Over at the "Nation" web site, one of America's top writers...
