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Nearly everyone, including the author, was startled last week when the Swedish Academy awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature to the American novelist Toni Morrison. For one thing, the academy has shown a fondness for spreading the prize around geopolitically and linguistically; because the last two winners -- Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and Derek Walcott a year ago -- write in English, this year's winner figured to be one who works in another language. For another, the U.S. authors rumored to be in contention for the prize were Thomas Pynchon and Joyce Carol Oates; Morrison's name did not appear...
...When Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday, we thought we would ask Harvard's literary elite for reactions...
...never read any Toni Morrison, and you must never tell anyone that." The statement wasn't made off the record, but we thought we'd give the scholar a break...
...although Hart, in the booklet, writes that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man cannot be excluded from any 20th century American literature class, he adds later that it would not be enough to graduate from college having read Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Ann Beattie...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...