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Today we're excited to share a bonus episode, the first installment of passages on Morrison, produced by

our friends at Random House Publishing Group. The new podcast takes reading on the road,

as Nomwali Serpell, novelist, critic, and Harvard professor, joins fellow writers and skilled

readers in conversation to pour over excerpts of Tony Morrison's prose. This show is a love letter to

reading closely in community. You'll hear Sir Pell in conversation with poet and former host of

the Slowdown, Tracy K. Smith. Together, they read the opening of The Bluest Eye, Tony Morrison's

debut novel, and discuss all that the passage emits and erases.

They emulate the possibilities of reflection and perspective from slowing down and moving with care through a text,

through the intentions of the writer and the world they build with us, the readers.

And the second episode, featuring acclaimed poet and essayist, Henif Abdurakib, is available to listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Passages.

Images.

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On Morrison.

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