Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
...anything, the term "grandeur" alone cannot accommodate Morrison, whose magisterial presence in the hall was almost elemental, permeating and reconstituting every particle of the air from the moment she entered the room...
...answer to that question is decidedly split. While Morrison herself possessed all the "grace, the dignity, and the intellectual depth" that Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74 ascribed to her in his dulcet introduction, Paradise as a novel is, almost unprecedently for the Nobel Laureate, less than wholly compelling...
...seemed. In 1975, the 25-year-old Gayl stunned the literary world with Corregidora, a fiercely written novel about incest, slavery and abuse. Jones mined the same brutal field in Eva's Man, in which the protagonist bites off a man's penis. Toni Morrison was her editor; John Updike praised her work. Another book followed. And at just 26, she was tenured at the University of Michigan. But after she arrived at the university, Gayl got involved with Bob, then known as Bob Higgins. (He would later take her name.) In 1983, Bob spewed invectives and brandished...
...disruptive presence was quickly felt in Gayl's life. Morrison's relationship with Gayl was severed in the wake of his demand that she audition to edit Gayl's fourth book. Says Morrison: "I wrote her a letter saying that editing her work was a highlight of my life but that I thought she needed an editor she could trust." Other friends and relatives also found themselves cut off. When the two ran off to Europe, Gayl left behind letters addressed to the university and Ronald Reagan, declaring, "I reject your lying, racist s___. God is with...