There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast Group discussion

Toni Morrison died yesterday evening.

I read Beloved in Yale Summer School—Gender and Political Science class—and it changed the way I looked at the American novel. I also read The Bluest Eye in that class, and it changed how I looked at my own writing, at sparseness of word to tell a powerful gut-punch of a story.

She won the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was such a treasure, as was her work.

obituary on Huffington Post

Video: Reading the Writing: A Conversation with Toni Morrison: Cornell University:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/toni-mor...