Toni Morrison

WATCH: Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison Honored Among 'America's Very Best'

NBC Nightly News | Posted 05.30.2012

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Post50 favorites singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, author Toni Morrison, and Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State, were among the 13 hon...

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Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — Sketching impressive contributions to society in intensely personal terms, President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to...

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ZooFari At National Zoo: HuffPost DC Top 5 For May 17, 2012

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.17.2012

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TOP 5 PICKS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 17 1. ZooFari At National Zoo Bummed the Betty White event sold out? This National Zoo's annual fundraiser will brig...

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Toni Morrison: Building an American Home

Richard Z. Santos | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Literature, Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison, Book Review, Jazz, Novels, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Books, African Americans, Toni Morrison Home, Books News
Richard Z. Santos

Searching for home -- for a safe place to rest your head, grow a family, and be part of a community -- occupies the heart of Morrison's body of work. How fitting then that her latest book has such a simple title: Home.

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Women Honored At Sackler Center First Awards

Posted 04.19.2012

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Yesterday 15 women were honored at the fifth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The "firstees," a...

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Toni Morrison Cancels Plans To Write Memoir

AP | Posted 03.15.2012

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OBERLIN, Ohio -- Novelist Toni Morrison tells fans in Ohio she canceled plans to write a memoir because "there's a point at which your life is not int...

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Books To Read For Black History Month

Christopher Paul Curtis | Posted 04.16.2012

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Christopher Paul Curtis

It is so difficult to choose only ten books for Black History Month; my list should be immediately expanded to include any book by the authors I cite.

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The New Black Aesthetic Revisited

Trey Ellis | Posted 11.26.2011

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Trey Ellis

With the publication of Toure's Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness, I have been inundated with requests for my 1989 essay, "The New Black Aesthetic," to which Toure's enjoyable work is a book-length update and homage.

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11 Notable HBCU Alumni

Posted 10.04.2011

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Did you know that P. Diddy interned at Uptown records while he was at Howard University? Or that Oprah got her start in broadcasting while at Tennesse...

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Picking Favorites: Books That Make Me Sigh With Satisfaction

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Burger's Daughter, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Erdrich, Wilkie Collins, A Burnt-Out Case, Stewart O?Nan, Thrity Umrigar, Ursula Le Guin, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Colin Channer, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Geraldine Brooks, Graham Green, The Clue in the Old Album, Philip Roth, Harriet the Spy, Martha Grimes, Jose Saramago, Favorite Books, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

A great book happens when I pick up a book and can't put it down again; when I cannot suppress the sighs upon finishing it; when I cannot wait to tell everyone I know: read this book! But how to pick a favorite?

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Less Famous Literary Masterpieces

Dave Astor | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Harry Potter, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

There are plenty of cases where an author's masterpiece deserves the top billing it gets in the author's canon. But then there are the cases where a writer's most famous book is not the writer's best book.

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Portraits Of Authors In Their Own Words

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Word Portraits, John Sokol, Song of Solomon, Author Drawings, Flannery O?Connor, Charles Baudelaire, Author Portraits, Portraits of Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, War and Peace, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

People say that the lines in your face are representative of the life you’ve led – as in, love your laugh lines because clearly you’ve had a goo...

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Nobel Literature Jurors Accused Of Prize Biases

AP | By IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 06.14.2011

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature isn't biased toward European writers or against American writers, a m...

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NJ Senator: Why Should Students Pay For Snooki?

AP | By ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 06.08.2011

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TRENTON, N.J. -- One New Jersey lawmaker doesn't think reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is worth the $32,000 she was paid to dish her GTL &ndas...

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The Achilles Heel of the Kindle

Pamela Newton | Posted 06.06.2011

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Pamela Newton

I am one of those book lovers unsettled by Kindles. But now I think I've finally spotted an actual weakness in the Kindle.

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BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton

Keli Goff | Posted 06.04.2011

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Keli Goff

OK, so the headline's a lie, but it's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility -- not in an age in which Snooki from The Jersey Shore is paid more than literary legend Toni Morrison to speak at the same university.

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Snooki Is Worth $2,000 More Than Toni Morrison

gawker.com | Posted 06.01.2011

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Is it possible to assign a dollar value to a specific person? Duh, yes, Rutgers University just did it: Jersey Shore's Snooki is worth $32,000 and Nob...

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Is This College Graduation Speaker Worth $30,000?

Posted 05.29.2011

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How much is a really good graduation speaker worth? $110,000? That's how much Katie Couric received from the University of Oklahoma in 2006. How...

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Looking For Great Books For Your LIbrary? Try 4 Decades Of NBCC Winners (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been around since the 1970s and the winners over the decades make an impressive recommended readin...

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Reading As An Equalizer: What James Joyce, Shakespeare Can Teach Us Today

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Declan Kiberd, Democracy, Critical Thinking, James Joyce, Education, Marilyn Monroe, Toni Morrison, Literacy, Chaucer, Ulysses, Miguel De Cervantes, Classics, Mark Twain, Reading, Shakespeare, Education News
Rick Ayers

Kiberd reminds us to hold on to, and honor, the truly democratic project that education must be.

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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison: Remembering The Author On Her Special Day

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today is Toni Morrison's 80th birthday. Born in Ohio, educated at Howard University and Cornell, Morrison's writing career started in earnest with her...

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Best Literary Sex Scenes (Most Don't Take Place In Beds)

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Beloved, Toni Morrison, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Joyce Carol Oates, Literary Sex Scenes, Sex, Kathy Acker, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Hale, Books News

Writing about sex in literature is a difficult task; there are so many ways authors can go wrong. Nowadays, most writers spend too much time on the bu...

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Baby Sloths And/Or Classic Literature: Using Subliminal Messages To Discuss Books

uproxx.com | Brandon Stroud | Posted 05.25.2011

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The only way to maintain literacy on an Internet overrun with Bed Intruders, tub-related women and epic treadmill fails is with subliminal messages. ...

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3 Famous Authors Remember Trip To China

WSJ | Alexandra Cheney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, China, 92y, 92Y Poetry Center School?S Project, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, The Turquoise Ledge, Books News

Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Toni Morrison traveled together through China 26 years ago. Monday night at 92Y, the three women reunite...

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The Wit and Wisdom of Fran Lebowitz

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Wit and Wisdom of Fran Lebowitz, Edward Sorel, Toni Morrison, Wilford Hemans, Ellen Kuras, Graydon Carter, Lynn Nesbit, Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorcese, Lynne Tillman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Fran Lebowitz is a motormouth, so all you really have to do is press "ON." That makes television a perfect medium for this unusual talker, who, part J...

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