I am very careful and I’m very deliberate in relying on what I know the reader knows, whether it’s on the top of his or her mind or not. I know that you know the taste of bubblegum.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 8, 2003.
Illinois State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie interviews Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison about her 2003 novel Love. They talk about racism, gender relations, Morrison’s writing process, and the different ways in which they identify with fictional characters as reader and writer, respectively. Especially interesting is that the issues of sex and race inequality and family affairs interwoven in Morrison’s multifaceted narrative have also formed the basis for the rights Currie fights for as a legislator.
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