Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature” slogan, I am pleased... Full Article at The Morning News

screaming dialogue and blistering descriptions would be a false veneer of polite exchanges and precise scenery. Full Article at Salt Lake Tribune

Something as broad as the subject and role of “culture” demands an abstract discussion of ideas and implications. If this were another event, we would have been critical of the general questions that moderator Gene Seymour lobbed at the panel. Full Article at Mediaite.com

Cornel West asked me whether there'd be sunshine when he got to Seattle. It was overcast, so I said he might have to bring it with him. Full Article at The Seattle Times

This week, we have a contribution by Mohsin Hamid '93, author of Moth Smoke (2000) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)! * WHEN UPDIKE SAVED ME FROM MORRISON (AND MYSELF) One day in the spring of 1993, Toni Morrison took me out for lunch. Full Article at Daily Princetonian

“After Robert Badinter, Toni Morrison, Anselm Kiefer and Pierre Boulez, Umberto Eco is the next special guest curator of the Louvre. Full Article at Artlog

The opportunity to sit down and talk with the remarkable American writers (and Nation Editorial Board members) Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and Walter Mosley is rare enough one on one. Full Article at The Nation

On any given day during the semester, the University plays host to a handful of visitor lecture events, brown-bag lunch discussions or colloquium series. Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

Over a decade ago, Oprah [ Images ] Winfrey produced and starred in a much admired film version of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved but the film bombed at the box-office. Full Article at Rediff

The ringing of the phone tore through the silence of a small hotel room in Washington D.C. and woke Bob Richardson up from his sleep. It was 5 a.m. Richardson picked up the receiver, only to hear an unfamiliar voice speaking in a Swedish accent. Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Impac Dublin literary award, but the Indian writer will have to see off the likes of Nobel laureates José Saramago and Toni Morrison if he is to take... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Rebekkah, who has fled her hateful family and the ferocious Christian sectarianism of seventeenth-century England for marriage to a stranger in the New World wilderness of Mary's Land, has reason to wonder after so much silence, absence, vacancy, and... Full Article at Powell's Books

There is no shortage of one-person shows. Indeed, there is a glut of them on both coasts. Some are good, some not so good. How do you avoid the mediocre and present something that resonates with audiences? Full Article at Backstage

[This review from the Monitor’s archives originally ran on April 17, 1992.] It was hard to imagine what Toni Morrison would do for an encore after her stunning achievement in “Beloved,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the psychic scars of... Full Article at Christian Science Monitor

I remember the poverty beat from my newspaper days eons ago in Lorain, Ohio -- a steel town near Cleveland -- where Toni Morrison once lived. Full Article at Huffington Post

The Norman Mailer who was honored Tuesday night by the glittery literati at a gala benefit was generous, nurturing and diligent, a big cuddly teddy bear with rumpled white hair and a rocking chair that faced the bay. Full Article at International Herald Tribune

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Full Article at The Daily Beast

Walking out of Robert Bergman's "Selected Portraits" at P.S. 1, you may find yourself staring in rapt amazement at the faces of people around you. Full Article at Village Voice

Every week it's something different for sixth-grade students at Hawkins Elementary School. Last week? They took an eight-line poem by Langston Hughes and transformed it into a 30-actor drama by bringing words to life. Full Article at Hattiesburg American