notes on Toni Morrison: reflections, reviews and musings on a great

let's dive into some Morrison!

last year I read A Life of Own's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs, where she explores several different writers and their new beginnings. I vowed this year to pick one writer she spotlighted, read one of their works and do some digging on the interwebz to learn more about them

first up -- Toni Morrison! this video is part reflection, part review sprinkled with some context around how her books were born. I had so much fun working on this, I hope you enjoy watching it :)

notes!
A Life of Own's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Joanna Biggs

Toni Morrison's Profound and Unrelenting Vision
Hilton Als, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...

Sula by Sarah Blackburn
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/30/ar...

Toni Morrison and Charlie Rose on Race and Writing (Interview)
   • Toni Morrison Beautifully Answers an "Ille...  

A Day With Toni Morrison, 1978 (Interview)
   • A Day with Toni Morrison (1978) Interview ...  

chapters!
0:00 intro
0:37 first morrison encounter
3:19 learning morrison
8:05 morrison collection
8:34 the bluest eye
10:13 sula
15:10 song of solomon
17:47 beloved
20:56 jazz
24:04 reflections on morrison
25:20 outro

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