This episode of Zero to Well Read is brought to you by thriftbooks.com.

Today it's a bonus episode with Professor Numwale-Sirpelle talking about how to get in to Tony Morrison.

Professor Serpell is a Morrison scholar.

She had a book come out this year called On Morrison, which Rebecca and I really liked

and got to have a conversation with her about reading Tony Morrison

and how you might do that as a beginner.

And if you want to do that, the book she suggests is Sula by Tony Morrison.

You're going to hear about why.

And on thriftbooks.com, there's a whole bunch of editions.

I'm going to shout out one here, particularly.

You can get a hardcover first edition in good condition, so it's probably got somewhere on it for $22.23.

Really cool.

If you want something in slightly better condition that's a little less expensive when Sula and Morrison were part of the Oprah Book Club consortium,

there was a re-release of the original hardback of Sula with the original

cover art and everything that you could get and you can still find it now.

You do have to deal with an Oprah's book club sticker, so I'll warn you there, but still

a pretty cool find and piece of literary history to find on thriftbooks.com.

Thanks to them for sponsoring this episode of Zero to Well Red. Let's get into the show.

Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read.

I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. Today we're taking on one of the most common questions from

zero to well read listeners. How and where do you start with Tony Morrison? And we have an expert here to show us the way.

Now, Molly Serpell is a fiction writer, a literary critic, and a professor of English at Harvard

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