Sunday with Toni Morrison
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- May
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It certainly seems that Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and novelist known for books including “Jazz” and “Song of Solomon”, is a favorite author in these parts.
Lunch with her was a raffle prize in Mt. Kisco this weekend and now I hear that she will be featured in a literary book talk this Sunday, May 31st in Rockland County.
Sunday Symposia, a community cultural series at the Palisades Free Library, hosts Morrison. She will be interviewed by The New Yorker’s essayist and critic Adam Gopnik.
Her books are well-known and very enjoyable, to be sure. But I can tell you that she is an interesting interview because she is so able to talk about the craft of writing and connect with the audience.
Morrison had a home in Grandview, but in 1993, the same year she received her Nobel Prize in Literature, it burned in a fire taking some of her original manuscripts and memorabilia as well. Some sites she now lives in New York Cit and a renovated cottage along the Hudson River in Nyack. According to the Toni Morrison Society, she has a busy schedule and is just coming back from Boston, where she spoke at the 20th annual conference of the American Literature Association.
I am sure she will have lots to say about many topics.
The symposia is from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center, Dolce Hotels & Resorts, 334 Route 9W, Palisades.
Reservations are required. Call 845-359-0136, stop by the library or go to the Web site.
A $10 ($5 for students) suggested donation to benefit the Palisades Free Library will be collected at the door.
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