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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview
  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781612198736
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $38.00
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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

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15 Sept 2020
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A wide-ranging collection of talks with the beloved author finds her refreshingly candid about her books and her life, race and misogyny, and more.

“Knowledge is what’s important, you know?  Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON
 
In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and last — Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a “national treasure”) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family’s stories — such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative — that of herself.
  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781612198736
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

MELVILLE HOUSE

Melville House is an independent publisher located in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2001 by sculptor Valerie Merians and fiction writer/journalist Dennis Johnson, in order to publish Poetry After 9/11, a book of material culled from Johnson’s groundbreaking MobyLives book blog. The material consisted of things sent in to the blog by writers and poets in response to the 9/11 attacks, and Johnson and Merians felt it better represented the spirit of New York than the call to war of the Bush administration.
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Praise for Toni Morrison: The Last Interview

"Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination." --Barack Obama

"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them." --Oprah Winfrey

"Morrison's characters live with me the way that biblical figures were always in the back of my grandmother's mind when she needed to make a point." --Tayari Jones

"Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours ..." --Margaret Atwood

"She wrote about what was difficult and what was necessary and in doing so she unearthed for a generation of people a kind of redemption, a kind of relief." -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie