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The Cut

Growing Up With Toni Morrison

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

By the time Toni Morrison died last week, a whole generation of readers had come of age in a world where she was already a legend. So, on this week’s show, we’re talking to women about growing up with Morrison’s books—how they first discovered her work, and what it’s meant to them over the years. Featuring: Brittany Luse, Zoe Haylock, Aminatou Sow, Glory Edim, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Angela Flournoy, and Ashley C. Ford.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Your skin will thank you. From the cut in Gimmlet Media, this is the cut on Tuesdays. I'm your host Molly Fisher. I started to write when I was in a lonely place.

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I started to write when I was in a lonely place and I was writing really for me and not for publication and not for anybody.

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I was a way of talking. It was a way of talking then.

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So I talked to myself a lot. This is Tony Morrison talking

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to PBS back in 1977, which means it's Tony Morrison before she was fully established as Tony Morrison.

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She just published her first book seven years before and listening to her talk you can

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hear someone who's still getting started.

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