Toni Morrison's Legacy

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Wesley Morris, Parul Sehgal and Dwight Garner talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom talks about her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”

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0:00.0	Literally a giant Tony Morrison died this week at 88.
0:10.2	What was Morrison's legacy?
0:12.4	Our critics, Wesley Morris, Dwight Garner and Pearl Sagole will join us to discuss.
0:18.2	How do you write a memoir about your childhood home?
0:21.3	Sarah Brune will be here to talk about her new book, The Yellow House.
0:25.4	Alexander Alter will have the latest in publishing news.
0:28.5	Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:31.8	This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.
0:34.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:43.4	Joining us now, our book critics, Dwight Garner, Pearl Sagole joins us from Rome and
0:48.8	special guest critic, Wesley Morris, here to talk about Tony Morrison.
0:53.6	This was a very sad week in the literary world.
0:56.6	Tony Morrison died age 88.
1:00.1	What was your first reaction when you heard this news?
1:04.5	I found out the way I found out about all these things.
1:07.4	Somebody texts me.
1:08.4	They'll just text me the name of the person who's died.
1:11.7	I know, no.
1:13.0	Right?
1:14.0	So I got a text from my friend Bill who was like, Tony.
1:19.0	Oof.
1:20.0	Wow.
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