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Tag Archives: Toni Morrison
Literacy and Justice
It seems that every day brings another story of book banning or book burning in the United States. Anyone who believes in protecting freedom of the press should be terrified by the assaults on liberty from the Christo-Fascist rightwing mobs … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, book burning, Maus, Toni Morrison
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Readers Pick Best Book Of The Past 125 Years
The New York Times Book Review has celebrated 125th anniversary by asking readers to nominate the best book of the past 125 years. The reader submissions were wittled down to a list of 25, which were voted on by more … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Harper Lee, New York Times Book Review, Toni Morrison
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I shared a vagrant optimism
Hunter S. Thompson —”I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison
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Live Your Way Into The Answer
Rainer Maria Rilke // “Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them…the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, USA, Writing
Tagged Kurt Vonnegut, novelists, Poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, Toni Morrison
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When Great Trees Fall
Maya Angelou wrote the poem “When Great Trees Fall” when James Baldwin died in December of 1987, and read the poem at his funeral… “When Great Trees Fall” by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, … Continue reading
Posted in History, USA, Writing
Tagged James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Poetry, Toni Morrison
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Summer Reading
President Barack Obama recently posted on Facebook his summer reading list. This year it’s a mix of fiction, memoirs, and instructive non-fiction. If you are searching for a good vacation read, you can never go wrong following the lead of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Colson Whitehead, Haruki Murakami, Hilary Mantel, Ted Chiang, Toni Morrison
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RIP Toni Morrison
You think dark is just one color, but it ain’t. There’re five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don’t stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of … Continue reading
Cultivating Thought
One day the writer Jonathan Safran Foer was sitting in a Chipotle Mexican Grill enjoying a veggie burrito (they’re quite good and GMO-free) when he realized that he had nothing to read. This sparked a clever idea for the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Chipotle, George Saunders, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Silverman, Toni Morrison
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