Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -
This is another reason why I love my little town -
Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky
ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."
Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"
Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.
Geekgasm.
I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.
The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average.
Beloved is as good as American letters gets.
Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard,
Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and
Paradise is no slouch either.
The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.
Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.