Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat, who had met the talk-show queen while working as an extra on the set of Winfrey's forthcoming movie version of Toni Morrison's Beloved. "'Hi, it's Oprah!' I couldn't talk. I just got a little scared about what it all meant." One thing it meant: sales. Breath, Eyes, Memory shot to No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly paperback best-sellers list. There are now 600,000 copies in print...
...enough Morrison impersonators--crowd would look Elvis-heavy...
Last week the Rolling Stone Network reported that officials at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, tired of picking up beer cans and condoms, have decided to disinter the remains of Jim Morrison, the late lead singer of the Doors, when the 30-year lease on his grave expires on July 6, 2001. This raises the question: Where should Jim go? Here are some suggestions...
...teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon, Lizzie is waking to African dust between her sheets, the rolling of a slave ship and her own blood seeping from torn flesh. Although Perry has clearly read her Toni Morrison, her insights into slavery are no more piercing than, say, Steven Spielberg's in Amistad. But to be fair, this debut novel is not really about remembering that peculiar institution; it's about healing relationships between mothers and daughters. The twist: Lizzie is both daughter and mother...
...Jazz, Toni Morrison...