Podcast appearances and mentions of Toni Morrison

You already know I have a lot to say. Now we're bringing books into the conversation.Introducing Till the Last Page with Solomon Ray, my new video and audio podcast about the books I can't stop thinking about, the characters I'm defending, and the rabbit holes they send me down. Expect honest opinions, some tears, and plenty of me being me.The first episode premieres September 23, and we're starting with Home by Toni Morrison.I'm also bringing you a candid after-show where we'll catch up on my week, talk about what I'm reading, and get into your questions and podcast reviews. If you've enjoyed hanging out with me here, come join me over there.Follow Till the Last Page on Spotify and subscribe on YouTube so you're ready for the first episode!Follow on SpotifyWatch the trailer and subscribe on YouTube

Kate and Allie are posting one of their old favor episodes during our week off to plan season 24. We hope you enjoy this throw-back about Isabella Stewart Gardner and Toni Morrison.

On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths' closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day.In the process of rebuilding a self, Griffiths chronicles her friendship with Moon, the seventeen years since their meeting at Sarah Lawrence College. Together, they embraced their literary foremothers—Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, to name a few—and fought to embrace themselves as poets, artists, and Black women. Alongside this unbreakable bond, Griffiths weaves the story of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the unshakeable devotion that endures.In The Flower Bearers (Random House, 2026), Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love. This is a conversation not to be missed.Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a multi-media artist, poet, and novelist. She received the MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is the recipient of numerous fellowships including Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Kimbilio, Cave Canem Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Yaddo. Her literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Progressive, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Poets & Writers, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Writer's Chronicle, Transition, American Poet, Mosaic, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Best American Poetry (2020, 2021), The New York Review of Books, BOMB! Magazine, and many others. You can find Rachel on Instagram.Learn more about the Torch 20th Anniversary celebration here.Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

To jeden z najważniejszych głosów amerykańskiej literatury.Pierwsza i jak dotąd jedyna czarnoskóra pisarka, która została uhonorowana literacką Nagrodą Nobla.Bohaterką tego odcinka Raportu o książkach jest Toni Morrison.Powieść, o której dziś porozmawiamy, zadedykowała 60 milionom i więcej.60 milionów i więcej to liczba zniewolonych ludzi – tych z przeszłości, teraźniejszości i przyszłości.W przedmowie do „Umiłowanej” pisze, że opowiadając o doświadczeniu niewolnictwa, terenu pełnego bezdroży, rozbija namiot na cmentarzysku zasiedlonym przez bardzo głośne duchy.„Umiłowana” to powieść o jednej z najmroczniejszych kart amerykańskiej historii, ale też uniwersalna przypowieść o złu, które rodzi się z pogardy dla drugiego człowieka.To także ponadczasowa opowieść o tym, co dzieje się z człowiekiem, który doświadczył rzeczy zbyt strasznych, by uniosły je słowa czy pamięć.Ale jest coś jeszcze, co czyni prozę Toni Morrison aktualną - polityka.„Umiłowana” została wydana 40 lat temu. Dziś jest usuwana ze szkolnych bibliotek w Stanach Zjednoczonych.Dlaczego to tak niebezpieczna książka?O tym wszystkim porozmawiam z tłumaczką i wielbicielką literatury Toni Morrison - Kają Gucio.---------------------------------------------Raport o stanie świata to audycja, która istnieje dzięki naszym Patronom, dołącz się do zbiórki ➡️ ⁠https://patronite.pl/DariuszRosiak⁠Subskrybuj newsletter Raportu o stanie świata ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠➡️ ⁠https://dariuszrosiak.substack.com⁠Koszulki i kubki Raportu ➡️ ⁠https://patronite-sklep.pl/kolekcja/raport-o-stanie-swiata/⁠ [Autopromocja]

Send us Fan MailWhat does it mean to belong in higher education—and who gets the message that college is a place for them?Dr. Rosslyn Knight has spent more than 25 years in education, including leading developmental education initiatives across the Maricopa County Community College District. Her work has centered on student success, educational access, and what happens when institutions either recognize a student's potential—or fail to see it.In this episode of At the Podium, Rosslyn and I reconnect more than three decades after first meeting as students at Vanderbilt University. We talk about the teachers who shaped us, including the seventh-grade teacher who saw what Rosslyn was experiencing as the only Black girl in an honors classroom and introduced her to Toni Morrison's *The Bluest Eye*.But our conversation also asks harder questions about higher education today. What do we really mean by “merit”? What are the consequences when a student is told, “Maybe college isn't for you”? Why are men of color increasingly absent from college campuses? What does the end of race-conscious admissions mean for access and opportunity? And are we asking 17- and 18-year-olds to take on financial burdens they cannot yet fully understand?This is a conversation about education, race, student debt and access—but underneath all of it is something more fundamental: the lasting power of being seen, being believed in, and knowing that you belong.Listen. Reflect. Become.

Slavery leaves physical scars, but memory inflicts deeper wounds. This book summary reveals the true price of survival. Beloved by Toni Morrison, the key ideas in minutes. Read the full summary free: https://read.getstoryshots.com/beloved Follow the show and a new book lands in your feed every day. Beloved by Toni Morrison: An audiobook summary and review by StoryShots.

My exploration of the American publishing landscape with one of our great book critics, Ron Charles. We discussed (1) the cardinal sin of novels—sentimentality, (2) whether readers will soon care if their books are mass-produced AI slop rather than the expression of flesh-and-blood humans; and (3) how Toni Morrison gave him the most astonishing reading experience of his life. Order Mark's novel Bunyan and Henry. All episodes of The Thoughtful Bro aired live originally on A Mighty Blaze. The Thoughtful Bro is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Writer's Bone.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón makes an argument that gets lost in most anniversary programming: that art does something political language simply can't — that attention, joy, and grief aren't distractions from the American experiment but its actual substance. In a moment she describes as defined by the theft of imagination, she makes the case that a single poem, a single act of noticing, is itself a civic act.What does that look like when someone has to build it into an actual room? Annabel Birnie, director of Amsterdam's H'ART Museum, takes up the question directly. Drawing on two exhibitions she's currently running — David Levinthal's American Myth & Memory and Radical Histories: Chicano Prints — she reflects on holding love and criticism of a country in the same space, and on what 35 years in Amsterdam, still hesitant to call herself an Amsterdammer, taught her about belonging that Limón's poems gesture toward.Out of Many, One Voice marks America's 250th anniversary by exploring what binds a nation together, and how the many voices that compose it give that nation meaning.Support the showThe John Adams Institute is Amsterdam's home for independent American thought. John Adams himself said “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish...the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” For four decades, we have amassed a unique archive of great thinkers, speakers and writers, from Toni Morrison to Timothy Snyder, and from Jane Fonda to Jill Lepore. It has been our pleasure to share this treasure trove of thought and word with you. In this exclusive miniseries, we're sitting down with a few prominent voices from both sides of the Atlantic to take stock of the United States, two hundred and fifty years into its experiment in self-governance. We believe John Adams would have wanted it that way – in fact he explained as much in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on 3 July 1776; “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.”  And so, from Amsterdam, it's Bright Minds; Out of Many, One?  the podcast from the Adams Institute! If you're a friend of free thinking and the communities that support it, please, become a member. Our independence is something we cherish, and it comes with a cost. The John Adams is an independent foundation without structural subsidy, and there's always room at our table for more.Click here to find out about sponsorship or becoming a member...

Nancy Pelosi spent nearly two decades as the most powerful woman in American political history — the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, twice over, steering the country through the financial crisis, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and the certification of an election under siege on January 6th. In this conversation, she reflects on that career as a case study in the institution itself: what it takes to hold a fractious caucus together, what she learned seeing America through the eyes of colleagues who see it differently, and what she still believes those in Congress owe the voters who sent them to Washington.Beneath the career retrospective runs the argument that matters most: that belief in the republic must to outlast the evidence against it — that every hard call along the way was worth its cost — which is how she arrives, again and again, at the same hopeful place: the flag is still there.Is that earned, or is it the sentence Americans reach for so they don't have to ask what happens if it isn't? Casper Thomas, who spent years reporting on American politics for a Dutch audience, for both the Het Financieele Dagblad and de Groene Amsterdammer, takes up the question directly. He names the contradiction Pelosi doesn't quite resolve — a Congress unified overseas, hollowed out at home — and tests "win the election" against what actually happened the last time Democrats did exactly that. Drawing on a recent trip back to the U.S. that surprised him, we ask whether Pelosi's allusion to imagery of the national anthem  is resilience, or simply reliance on stale folklore.Out of Many, One Republic marks America's 250th anniversary by asking what actually holds a republic together once the founding generation is gone — and whether trust, once broken, can still be rebuilt from within the institutional structure itself.Support the showThe John Adams Institute is Amsterdam's home for independent American thought. John Adams himself said “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish...the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” For four decades, we have amassed a unique archive of great thinkers, speakers and writers, from Toni Morrison to Timothy Snyder, and from Jane Fonda to Jill Lepore. It has been our pleasure to share this treasure trove of thought and word with you. In this exclusive miniseries, we're sitting down with a few prominent voices from both sides of the Atlantic to take stock of the United States, two hundred and fifty years into its experiment in self-governance. We believe John Adams would have wanted it that way – in fact he explained as much in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on 3 July 1776; “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.”  And so, from Amsterdam, it's Bright Minds; Out of Many, One?  the podcast from the Adams Institute! If you're a friend of free thinking and the communities that support it, please, become a member. Our independence is something we cherish, and it comes with a cost. The John Adams is an independent foundation without structural subsidy, and there's always room at our table for more.Click here to find out about sponsorship or becoming a member...

Edward Luce has spent decades chronicling America's slow transition from the undisputed architect of the postwar order into something less certain of its own role. He is the Financial Times' U.S. National Editor, a former speechwriter in the Clinton Treasury Department, and the author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism and Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet. The latter is a biography of the Cold War strategist who understood earlier than most that the American century would not simply extend itself indefinitely.In this conversation, recorded in the tense aftermath of the 2026 Munich Security Conference, he draws on that longer arc to make a case that reaches back well before the current moment: that the alliance system built in the ashes of 1945 was never just a strategy, but an extension of how America understood its own role in the world — and that the uncertainty visible abroad today has been building since the Cold War's end, across different administrations.He traces America's slide from unipolar confidence to a multipolarity Brzezinski saw coming, and mourns the disappearance of strategists willing to think in decades rather than news cycles. His sharpest claim: America is a creedal nation, and its unresolved fight over what that creed means is what makes its current foreign policy so volatile.Is that argument still legible on the ground? Anna van Zoest, Director of the Netherlands Atlantic Association and a principal organizer of NATO's 2025 Public Forum, brings it back to the summit she's just returned from in Ankara — testing whether the alliance still carries the weight of the thinking that built it, and what happens to a system built abroad as a mirror of American belief once that belief is shaken.Out of Many, One Idea marks America's 250th anniversary by asking whether a nation still working out what it stands for can keep building a world that depends on it.Support the showThe John Adams Institute is Amsterdam's home for independent American thought. John Adams himself said “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish...the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” For four decades, we have amassed a unique archive of great thinkers, speakers and writers, from Toni Morrison to Timothy Snyder, and from Jane Fonda to Jill Lepore. It has been our pleasure to share this treasure trove of thought and word with you. In this exclusive miniseries, we're sitting down with a few prominent voices from both sides of the Atlantic to take stock of the United States, two hundred and fifty years into its experiment in self-governance. We believe John Adams would have wanted it that way – in fact he explained as much in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on 3 July 1776; “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.”  And so, from Amsterdam, it's Bright Minds; Out of Many, One?  the podcast from the Adams Institute! If you're a friend of free thinking and the communities that support it, please, become a member. Our independence is something we cherish, and it comes with a cost. The John Adams is an independent foundation without structural subsidy, and there's always room at our table for more.Click here to find out about sponsorship or becoming a member...

It's The Stacks Book Club Day, and Sequoia Holmes, host of the Black People Love Paramore and Freshly Pop'd podcasts, is back to chat about our August pick, Fish Tales by Nettie Jones. Set in the 1970s, this dark, satirical novel-in-vignettes follows Lewis Jones, a freewheeling young woman partying her way through NYC and Detroit until her independent lifestyle is upended by her relationship with the handsome yet cruel Brook. In this episode, Sequoia and I discuss the difference between the book's marketing and its actual content, the distinction between an unlikable character and an anti-hero, and the ways this book is in conversation with the work of its original editor, Toni Morrison.Listen to the end of the episode to find out what our September book club pick is!You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks website: https://www.thestackspodcast.com/2026/8/26/ep-439-fish-talesConnect with Sequoia: Instagram | Substack | TikTokConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Threads | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | Substack | YoutubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apologies! We've had a few technical issues but we've got an all timer for you coming from the depths of white savior hell. Shadrach is a painful watch. Not simply because of the subject matter (a 99 year old slave WALKS from Alabama to Virginia to die on the plantation he was born on) but for the fact that they treat this full grown Black man like a prop.  We dig into the history of the short story the film is based on, what kind of horrible make-up job they did on this man and read some of the absolutely insane reviews people left for this film.  Join our book club! Follow us on the socials to see our reading list and catch us discussing our first book (Toni Morrison's Language as Liberation) very soon. Follow us at whitepeoplewontsaveyoupod on Instagram and TikTok for more! Also, we'll have another episode out this Thursday as we catch up on our schedule so stay tuned for that! 

In considering the Toni Morrison documentary, 'The Pieces I Am', it has me thinking about what it means to write, and write in a world where everything is curated. Writing is the only art you can give away, which may cost you eveything.It is a privilege to do this craft...and I never want to forget that.

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. For more information about Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison, visit their website www.OhioCelebratesToniMorrison.org or on Insta at @ohiocelebratesmorrison.   This week we have created a motley episode of different segments all about or set in OH in some way.  Think of it as the Frankenstein's monster episode. First we will be chatting with Britt Lovett, who is the Project Manager for the Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison Project.  This year-long celebration running from February 2026-February 2027 focuses on the life, literature, and legacy of Toni Morrison, a native of Ohio and the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.   While Amy has gone to Ohio this year to visit Hocking Hills and the Columbus Book Festival, Carrie has driven to Ohio three times because her youngest son had surgery in June at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Because this year feels like it has been “All Ohio, all the time,” we're giving you recommendations for books set in the Buckeye State.   Books Mentioned in This Episode: 1- Assassination Nation by Sarah Vowell  2- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  3- Sula by Toni Morrison  4- Beloved by Toni Morrison  5- Paradise by Toni Morrison  6- I'll Watch Your Baby by Nina Viel  7- Clutch by Emily Nemens  8- Murder Your Darlings by Jenna Blum  9- Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Houser  10- The Night Hunter by Natalie Moss  11- Guess Again by Charlie Donlea  12- A Harlem Wedding by Tiffany L. Warren  13- A Hunger to Kill by Kim Mager with Liza Pulitzer  14- Love is a Contact Sport by Frederick Smith  15- The French Winemaker's Daughter by Loretta Ellsworth  16- The Jilted Countess by Loretta Ellsworth  17-We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate Giant by Julia Flint  18- Mosquitoland by David Arnold  19- The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, The Woman Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott  20- Buckeye by Patrick Ryan  21- The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos by M. Elizabeth Weiser  22- Kent State by Deborah Wiles  23- To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower  24- The Wright Sister by Richard Maurer  25- Harvey Pekar's Cleveland by Harvey Pekar    Media Mentioned: 1- Death by Lightening (Netflix, 2026) 2- Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison - https://ohiocelebratestonimorrison.org

Dawoud Bey talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Bey, who was born in 1953 in New York, makes photographs and film installations that address the experience of Black people in the US, from the horrors of slavery via racist violence and the Civil Rights era to intimate moments in contemporary life. He began his career as a photographer in the 1970s with the consistent aim to work as an artist rather than a photojournalist. While he was celebrated from the start for his depictions of people and communities, he has always had a particular sensitivity to place, and after several decades in which portraiture and street photography were dominant strains in his practice, his work over the past decade has focused mostly on landscape. But even when they are not physically present, those who have lived in and travelled through the places he depicts are as much part of the photographs' and films' subject as the environments captured by his camera. He has said of recent series, for instance, that he wants to capture the landscape as seen and felt by the enslaved people who moved through it, and a profound sense of empathy underpins all his output. “This notion of the radical Black imaginary,” he explains, “is the foundation or place that my work springs from.” He discusses how his background in jazz and how it has influenced his art-making, his term “subjective opticality” and what it tells us about the camera and the perspective of the photographer, and the importance of photographs as objects. He reflects on the early influence of Roy DeCarava and John Coltrane, who continue to impact his thinking today, his early fascination with Rembrandt, his work with David Hammons and friendship with Torkwase Dyson, how he has responded to Toni Morrison in his recent photographic series, and the ongoing influence of Michael Roemer, the film-maker with whom he studied. Plus, he gives insight into life in the studio and asks our usual questions, including the ultimate: what is art for?Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapes, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, until 4 July 2027. The exhibition is co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Air Date: 8/16/2026 Today we look at what Toni Morrison called "sanctioned ignorance," the deliberate manufacture of a version of the past that keeps citizens from connecting the dots between what their government did then and what it's doing now. They're doing it by attacking museums, libraries, and everyone dedicated to ensuring that people have access to accurate information because that's what it takes to implement authoritarian control over a society. It's also the reason that countries under authoritarian rule suffer from the lack of benefits that comes with the free exchange of ideas. Full Show Notes Transcript Be part of the show! Leave a voice message, message us on Signal at the handle bestoftheleft.01, or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! TOP TAKES KP 1: David Blight Makes Opening Statement in Hearing on How Smithsonian Presents History - PBS Newshour - Air Date 7-21-26 KP 2: Trying to Rewrite History - Letters From an American - Air Date 7-28-26 KP 3: Trump Orders Signs at Smithsonian Museum Warning of 'Inaccurate' History - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 7-30-26 KP 4: Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire Part 1 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 7-11-26 KP 5: Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; Plus The Snow Leopard Part 1 - Start Making Sense - Air Date 8-17-23 KP 6: Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee. Plus, Librarians Under Siege. - On the Media - Air Date 9-19-25 KP 7: Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment Part 1 - Movement Memos - Air Date 3-19-26 (00:57:23) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Why Authoritarians Always Create a Brain Drain That Leaves Their Country Intellectually Impoverished My commentaries on YouTube - Share them! DEEPER DIVES (01:08:29) SECTION A: THE CRACKDOWN A1: What Is the Smithsonian - Civics 101 - Air Date 6-25-24 A2: 'If You Can Keep It' The Smithsonian Part 1 - 1A - Air Date 8-18-25 A3: Trumps Assault on Museums and Libraries, the Art Markets 12% Fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett Part 1 - The Week in Art - Air Date 4-10-25 A4: 'If You Can Keep It' The Smithsonian Part 2 - 1A - Air Date 8-18-25 A5: Trumps Assault on Museums and Libraries, the Art Markets 12% Fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett Part 2 - The Week in Art - Air Date 4-10-25 (01:47:35) SECTION B: HISTORIANS PUSH BACK B1: Historian Douglas Brinkley on MAGA-fying the Smithsonian Part 1 - Brian Lehrer A Daily Podcast - Air Date 8-21-25 B2: Trumps Renewed War, More ICE Killings, and Teaching American History - Start Making Sense - Air Date 7-15-26 B3: Historian Douglas Brinkley on MAGA-fying the Smithsonian Part 2 - Brian Lehrer A Daily Podcast - Air Date 8-21-25 (02:13:02) SECTION C: LIBRARIES UNDER SIEGE C1: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries Part 1 - Citations Needed - Air Date 3-29-23 C2: Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment Part 2 - Movement Memos - Air Date 3-19-26 C3: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries Part 2 - Citations Needed - Air Date 3-29-23 C4: Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; Plus The Snow Leopard Part 2 - Start Making Sense - Air Date 8-17-23 (02:44:58) SECTION D: THE LONGER ARC - EMPIRE, IDEOLOGY, AND THE WORLD'S VIEW D1: The US Struggles with History, Stephen Friedman Gallery Closes, Tudor Heart Pendant Acquired by the British Museum - The Week in Art - Air Date 2-12-26 D2: Museum Responses to Fascism (or Not) Part 1 - The Modern Art Notes Podcast - Air Date 8-6-26 D3: Museum Responses to Fascism (or Not) Part 2 - The Modern Art Notes Podcast - Air Date 8-6-26 D4: Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire Part 2 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 7-11-26   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Send us a text! We'd love to hear your thoughts on the show.What happens when the people most likely to care for everyone else finally decide to make space for their own creative work?In this episode of The Resilient Writers Radio Show, I'm joined by Kasia Van Schaik, author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth and the new hybrid memoir and work of cultural criticism, Women Among Monuments: Solitude, Permission, and the Pursuit of Female Genius.Kasia's book began with a question she had carried since girlhood: Where are the women among monuments?That question led her into the lives of women writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Toni Morrison, Bernadette Mayer, and many others. It also led her to the story of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman in the world to earn a PhD. In 2022, a proposal to place Piscopia's statue in a public square in Padua, alongside statues of celebrated male thinkers and artists, was met with fierce resistance.Why are women's achievements still so difficult for some people to recognize? And what does that resistance reveal about the way we understand creative genius?Kasia and I explore those questions while looking closely at what it takes for women to build and sustain creative lives.We talk about the guilt that can arise when women step away from caregiving, housework, emotional labour, or professional responsibilities to write. Even when time has been deliberately set aside, it can feel pressured or selfish. Instead of entering the writing space freely, we may feel that every minute has to produce something impressive.Kasia shares how different writers protected their creativity. Toni Morrison worked during the quiet hours before sunrise. Gertrude Stein boldly claimed the mantle of genius for herself. Bernadette Mayer found poetry in the ordinary details of motherhood and domestic life, showing that the creative and “uncreative” parts of our lives do not always need to be separated.We also unpack the complicated history of the word “genius.” It can feel exclusive, grandiose, and even a little cringe. Kasia offers another way to understand it: not as a title reserved for a chosen few, but as a capacity someone possesses. You might have a genius for language, storytelling, observation, humour, or seeing connections others miss.Our conversation also moves into literary awards, genre fiction, imposter syndrome, rejection, and the importance of creative community. Recognition can help a writer feel that they belong, but awards are subjective and limited. They cannot be the only measure of whether our work matters.Ultimately, sustaining a creative life requires persistence and permission. It may mean protecting your brightest hours, creating a small ritual, joining a writing group, or continuing to submit your work after another rejection.If you've been waiting for proof that your writing deserves your time, this conversation is for you. Listen now for an honest, encouraging reminder that your creative work matters, and you are allowed to make room for it.

On The Books With John Skrtic August 2026 A side quest here on Zig At The Gig where we get a monthly update for John Skrtic about all the amazing free events happing at Cleveland Public Library ! Saturday, August 15, 2026 The Cleveland Hip Hop Exhibit: 20 Years Strong Time:2:00pm - 8:00pm Location:Main 00 - Eastman Reading Garden Branch: Main Library - Downtown Saturday, August 15, 2026 Speak In Tongues Where shit happened book release 3:00–5:00 PM Location: Visible Voice Books, 4601 Lorain Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102 Wednesday, August 12 2026 Sound Bites: Justin Tibb's Spark Trio Time:12:00pm - 1:00pm Location:Main 00 - Eastman Reading Garden Branch: Main Library - Downtown   Wednesday, August 19 2026 Sound Bites: Lex Moda Time:12:00pm - 1:00pm Location:Main 00 - Eastman Reading Garden Branch: Main Library - Downtown And She Was Loved: A Celebration of Toni Morrison with Andrea Pinkney September 17, 2026, from 11:00 AM–1:00 PM at the Cleveland Public Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Campus (10601 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland) and is free and open to the public. https://ohiocelebratestonimorrison.org/event/and-she-was-loved-a-celebration-of-toni-morrison-with-andrea-pinkney/ Edward S. Curtis's Collection The Cleveland Public Library houses a rare, original 20-volume set of Edward S. Curtis's monumental work, The North American Indian (Set Number 331), published between 1907 and 1930. Located in the Fine Arts and Special Collections department at 325 Superior Avenue, the holding includes roughly 1,500 original photogravure prints documenting indigenous tribal life.

From a glitch to politics to literature as we discuss Toni Morrison, Eileen Chang and then move on to Joey Cape and Suicidal Tendencies... won't fall in love today.

Send us Fan MailEpisode 42 of the Great American Novel Podcast considers Toni Morrison's 1977 novel and National Book Critics' Circle award winner Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon tells of the coming age of Macon “Milkman” Dead between the Second World War and before the passage of the Civil Right Act. Other unique and complex characters such as Pilate, his aunt, Hagar, his lover (and cousin), and Guitar, his friend and nemesis help round out a complicated and intriguing story about how a young man has to learn who he is and where he came from before the can grow into the future.   Critics and fans have long debated which is her best novel.  Is it Song of Solomon?  Beloved?  Sula, Jazz?  Your intrepid hosts weigh in on the debate and also discuss the origins of this novel in a folk tale.  They ask whether Morrison was right or wrong in saying she didn't practice magical realism.  Please join us in this discussion of an incredible and electrifying novel.  All opinions are the hosts' own and do not reflect the points of view of their employers, publishers, relatives, pets, or accountants. All show music is by Lobo Loco.  The intro song is “Old Ralley”; the intermission is “The First Moment,” and the outro is “Inspector Invisible.”  For more information visit: https://locolobomusic.com/.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

In one of her novels, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel and Sula, girlfriends since childhood. But the friendship frays as Sula’s self-centeredness grows, culminating in her seducing Nel’s husband. “Why didn’t you think about me?” Nel asks Sula. “Didn’t I count?” Sadly, Sula doesn’t even care enough to answer. As anyone who’s experienced it knows, the pain of a friend’s betrayal is hard to rival. King David felt such “malice and abuse” when a political conspiracy of “threats and lies” engulfed him (Psalm 55:10-11). The worst part was who was behind it. “If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it,” he says. “But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend” (vv. 12-13). How should we respond to such betrayal? While David takes his turmoil to God (vv. 16, 20), he prays retribution will fall on his betraying friend (v. 15). We see a different approach taken by Jesus. Faced with Judas’ betrayal, he says, “Do what you came for, friend,” refusing to retaliate in kind (Matthew 26:49-50). Can a friendship recover from betrayal? Only if the offended can stay open to reconciliation and the offender proves their repentance over time. Sula’s lack of remorse means Nel must walk away. May God empower us to treasure our friendships and swiftly make amends for any hurt we cause.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

Philippa opens with a brief history lesson — the word "blurb" was invented in 1907 by a writer mocking self-congratulatory publishers, and his fictional creation Miss Belinda Blurb gave us the word we still use today. Then it's three book reviews and a wide-ranging, genuinely fascinating conversation with David Baldacci — over 200 million books sold — about his latest novel Hope Rises.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

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Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

Toni Morrison. „Mylima“. Vertė Lilija Vanagienė, išleido leidykla „Vaga“.„Mylima“ vadinama vienu ryškiausių kūrinių amerikiečių literatūroje, išversta į daugiau nei 20 pasaulio kalbų, pagal ją sukurtas ir to paties pavadinimo filmas. Romane pasakojama sukrečianti istorija apie Ameriką po Pilietinio karo ir dramatišką moters kovą su vergovės fantomais. Romano ištraukas skaito aktorė Neringa Bulotaitė.

Francesco Baucia"William Faulkner. Il vortice dell'origine"Edizioni Areswww.edizioniares.it“Ascoltare, sentire, vedere. Questa la triade che si rinnova nella voce di Faulkner, nella sua capacità di generare voci… Non c'è sguardo che non sia anche un urlo.”Inarrestabile nella foga creativa così come nelle passioni autodistruttive, il premio Nobel William Faulkner (Mississippi, 1897-1962) raccoglie il soffio della storia della sua terra, un Sud orgoglioso e violento, e lo trasforma, attraverso la lezione del romanzo modernista, in un grande universo letterario. Cronista e visionario, Faulkner inquieta e commuove; in lui convivono nostalgia e gusto di vivere, disperazione e speranza. Lo spiega in questo vivacissimo profilo Francesco Baucia, che sonda anche il Faulkner sceneggiatore, “spalla” di Howard Hawks, uno dei grandi registi del suo tempo: la scrittura del romanziere statunitense è infatti eminentemente cinematografica, sempre magnetica, e percorsa da una tensione polarizzante che costringe il lettore a confrontarsi incessantemente con il segreto delle sue parole, le contraddizioni dell'America e del «teatro del Sud».William Faulkner nacque a New Albany, nel Mississippi, nel 1897, e crebbe a Oxford, la cittadina che sarebbe diventata il modello della sua immaginaria contea di Yoknapatawpha, ambientazione di gran parte della sua narrativa.Considerato uno dei massimi scrittori americani del Novecento, Faulkner rivoluzionò la tecnica narrativa attraverso l'uso del flusso di coscienza, la frammentazione temporale e la molteplicità dei punti di vista, elementi che caratterizzano capolavori come L'urlo e il furore (1929), Mentre morivo (1930), Luce d'agosto (1932) e Assalonne, Assalonne! (1936). La sua opera scava nella storia e nelle contraddizioni del Sud degli Stati Uniti, tra eredità della schiavitù, decadenza aristocratica e trasformazioni sociali.Nel 1949 gli fu conferito il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, e nel corso della carriera vinse anche due Premi Pulitzer, per La città (1957) e I gonfaloni (1962). Lavorò inoltre come sceneggiatore a Hollywood, collaborando tra gli altri con Howard Hawks.Morì nel 1962 a Byhalia, nel Mississippi, lasciando un'eredità letteraria che ha profondamente influenzato la narrativa mondiale successiva, da Gabriel García Márquez a Toni Morrison.Francesco Baucia (Asti, 1984) è dottore di ricerca in Scienze linguistiche e letterarie all'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Ha pubblicato i romanzi L'ultima analisi (Sedizioni, 2013) e La notte negli occhi (Lindau, 2020), la raccolta di studi su Cormac McCarthy Luci dall'abisso (Vita e Pensiero, 2024, con F. Bellini) e il saggio narrativo Discipline occidentali (Castelvecchi, 2025). Collabora con il manifesto e doppiozero, ed è autore di sceneggiature televisive.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Toni Morrison's debut novel traces the tragedy of a young girl named Pecola Breedlove and the community that failed her. By splintering the book's perspective across the community of Lorain, she humanizes everyone and exonerates no one. Not an easy book, but a rewarding one.This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Follow @overduepod on Instagram and BlueskyAdvertise on OverdueSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This week we're digging into the complicated way that Toni Morrison presents Sethe's tragic choice here in the middle of the book and especially the psychological implications and ramifications—both character-wise and aesthetically. Plus: Paul D's response and Beloved's haunting. There's a lot to dig into here so join the conversation! Happy listening! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Notes and Links to Julie Buntin's Work     Julie Buntin's new novel, Famous Men, is out as of July 14. Her debut, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. It was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick and was released in ten territories worldwide and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. In September, Norton will publish her collaborative nonfiction project, Notes to New Mothers, co-edited with Rebecca Dinerstein Knight.    Previously, Buntin was an editor and director of writing programs at Catapult. She has taught creative writing at NYU, Columbia University, Marymount Manhattan College, the Yale Writers' Workshop, Lighthouse Writers Workshop's Lit Fest, and elsewhere. Now, she writes and teaches in Ann Arbor, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.   Buy Famous Men   Julie Buntin's Website   Elle Magazine: “An Exclusive First Look at Julie Buntin's Famous Men, One of the Most Anticipated Novels of 2026"   New York Times Review of Famous Men       At about 3:00, Julie shares feedback she has received about Famous Men  At about 4:20, Julie gives publishing and purchasing information for her novel At about 5:30, Julie highlights book tour events At about 6:10, Julie talks about her upbringing in Michigan At about 7:40, Julie traces her childhood connections to reading and literary culture At about 10:40, Julie shouts out Mr. Young, her “formative” 10th grade English teacher and talks about her early reading and burgeoning literary interests  At about 12:20, Pete fanboys over Tobias Wolff in asking Julie's thoughts on the “public intellectual” and connections to her novel, Famous Men At about 15:40, Julie highlights Lorrie Moore, Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Bishop, Elena Ferrante, and Stephen King, among others, as formational for her own writing  At about 19:10, Julie compliments current writers whose work she enjoys, including Raven Leilani, Emma Cline, and Claire Messoud At about 20:40, Julie responds to Pete's question about the texts that resonate with her students, including Tinkers by Paul Harding At about 23:25, Pete unloads his traumatic writing workshop experience, and Julie gives background on the evolution of the writing workshop  At about 27:30, Pete shares the novel's epigraphs and asks Julie about seeds for the book At about 32:30, The two discuss the book's opening and reflect on where to open a/the book At about 34:00, The two discuss an inciting incident and flashforward and the main male character's writing and many relationships with women At about 35:00, The two discuss sexism experienced by Will as a girl  At about 36:05, Julie reflects on the “secret summers” Will had as a teenager At about 38:55, The two discuss the “shame” Will feels and the connection to her writing and need to express herself At about 41:20, The two discuss the power of truth (or the lack of power), especially for young women, as seen in the way that young Will is often disbelieved   At about 42:25, Pete highlights a winning craft point, and Julie highlights how Nathaniel would have started the book-she muses on how to write this part  At about 43:30, The two discuss a huge breach of trust in Will's household, as Julie muses on Will's mindset before and after the gross behavior from a family member  At about 46:40, Pete and Julie discuss Will's leaving to New York City and her first experience with a reading and meeting Nathaniel  At about 50:05, Julie responds to Pete's questions about her treatment of a “ghost character”  At about 52:40, Pete highlights a “fraught” scene  At about 53:40, The two discuss the writing slump of Nathaniel and connections to impotence in the book and in the writing world and who gets to carry one's legacy despite a dr At about 55:00, Julie discusses Nathaniel as a composite character  At about 56:00, Julie talks about an important photo and how it affects the relationship between Will and Nathaniel At about 58:30, Julie expands on the idea of Nathaniel's fame, as seen by his inner world and the outer world At about 1:01:40, Famous men and “missing” fathers are discussed, as well   At about 1:02:45, Julie reflects on the heart condition that Will has and somatic/anxiety links At about 1:03:50, Julie responds to Pete's musings about Will being stunted or fed in her growth as a writer and person through being with Nathaniel At about 1:08:30, Julie ponders Pete's question regarding what to do with the creation of flawed creators        You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow Pete on IG, where he is @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where he is @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the podcast while you're checking out this episode.       Pete is very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. His conversation with Jeff Pearlman, a recent guest, is up now at Chicago Review.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl      Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting Pete's one-man show, DIY podcast and extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This month's Patreon bonus episode is the trailer episode for my limited podcast series, Rage is a Gift: Evil Empire at 30. I reflect on the Importance (and the power of this capital "I") of Rage Against the Machine and their seminal Evil Empire album, which is celebrating 30 years of resistance. The limited podcast series will do a deep exploration of, and reflection on, the lyrics and context of each of the 12 powerful songs on the album.     Pete has added a $1 a month tier for “Well-Wishers” and Cheerleaders of the Show.     This is a passion project of Pete's, a DIY operation, and he'd love for your help in promoting what he's convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.     The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode is “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 347 with a guest to be announced.    Please go to ceasefiretoday.org, and/or https://act.uscpr.org/a/letaidin to call your congresspeople and demand an end to the forced famine and destruction of Gaza and the Gazan people.    You can also donate at chuffed.org, World Central Kitchen, and so many more, and/or you can contact writer friend Ursula Villarreal-Moura directly or through Pete, as she has direct links with friends in Gaza.

Official commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence have now ended, with anticipated federally subsidized, countrywide conversations about the meaning of the U.S. never materializing. Instead, much of the commemorative and contemplative energy was consumed by a federal government temporarily captured by a White nationalist regime intent on narrowing rather than expanding both polity-wide memory and imagination.The country's ongoing inability to either manufacture or negotiate consensus, or forcefully reject its resurgent and desperate White nationalist virus, tells us something more important about the moment itself. We are living through the end stages of a roughly five-century period of Western global strength. As the order it birthed becomes increasingly brittle, narratives that sustain its power require ever more aggressive forms of maintenance.Donald Trump's Freedom 250 State Fair was a fitting illustration. Rather than presenting a negotiated national vision, it projected an anemic, market-driven EuroFuturism detached from the lived realities of the people being assaulted within and beyond it.Against that thin and fitfully curated spectacle stands far more vibrant and complicated social worlds produced through Governance formations of family, community, Cultural Meaning Making, Movement, and Memory.In Class With Carr has spent significant time displacing "250" as an anchoring historical marker, using an Africana Studies method and lens to break through narrowing Social Structure narratives in order to make space for self-determining forms of Governance, Ways of Knowing, and understanding time, belonging, and community.That work makes it increasingly possible to say, publicly and without apology, that Western-style polities need not define or contain our common humanity while remaining fully engaged with the institutions and social formations with and through which we must still struggle.Last week, in Session 330, we proposed moving "Beyond 250." Today, we use ongoing years of collective work informed by deep study and real-time responses to increasingly desperate acts of White political violence to engage in a thought exercise grounded in another way of organizing historical time.The question is not simply what happened in 1776 or even in 1865. The deeper question is why those dates organize our thinking in the first place.What are the odds that we can use this season of endings to harness a momentum of memory for a different and better collective purpose?Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Follow on X: https://x.com/knarrative_https://x.com/inclasswithcarrFollow on Instagram IG / knarrative IG/ inclasswithcarr Follow Dr. Carr: https://www.drgregcarr.comhttps://x.com/AfricanaCarrFollow Karen Hunter: https://karenhuntershow.comhttps://x.com/karenhunter IG / karenhuntershowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Some of the leadership patterns that resist every intervention were never yours to begin with. In this episode of Wired to Win, Fernanda Lind explores the neuroscience of epigenetics and intergenerational trauma: how the brain inherits stress-response patterns across generations, why your deepest and most stubborn patterns can feel older than your own life, and how neuroplasticity makes even inherited wiring changeable. Have you ever noticed a pattern that keeps showing up no matter how much work you have done on yourself? You understand it. You have analysed it, talked it through, even changed it, until the next high-pressure moment brings it straight back, exactly as strong as before. This episode makes a surprising and more forgiving argument. Some of those patterns were not built by your own experience at all. They were inherited, through the same biological mechanisms that epigenetics research is now documenting, and they can be rewired. Drawing on Toni Morrison's novel Beloved and landmark epigenetics research from Rachel Yehuda at Mount Sinai, Michael Meaney at McGill, and the Dutch Hunger Winter studies, Fernanda unpacks why the neural patterns that most resist change often carry a history that precedes your own, and what shifts when you stop asking "what is wrong with me" and start asking "what history is running here, and what does it need in order to be updated." In this episode, you'll learn: What epigenetics reveals about how stress responses are inherited across generations Why your most persistent leadership patterns can feel ancient rather than personal How intergenerational trauma shapes cortisol and the brain's threat response, from Rachel Yehuda's research on Holocaust survivors and their children Why these inherited patterns are biological inheritances, not character flaws How epigenetic marks, though heritable, are not fixed, and what neuroplasticity makes possible The single shift in orientation, from self-judgment to historical recognition, that makes deep change more effective Why insight and understanding alone rarely move a deeply grooved pattern How to approach your most resistant patterns with the compassion that makes rewiring actually work The most profound neuroplastic work available is not only updating the patterns you built in your own career. It is updating the ones you inherited before it began. Your Next Steps:Watch the Free MasterclassIf success still feels heavier than it should… this masterclass will help you understand why.Watch The Rewired Method™ in action How we help women executives end burnout and build sustainable success in less than 90 days...I recorded a step-by-step training for you here: The Sustainable Success Plan for Executive Women LeadersExplore The Rewired Woman™https://therewiredwoman.com/Follow on InstagramConnect on LinkedInCorporate Partnerships & Leadership Programshttps://rewiredglobal.com/corporates/

Welcome back to our series on Toni Morrison's novel. In this episode we focus on Morrison's engrossing prose, including the way she uses threaded metaphors and symbols, and how it enhances the pathos of the story. Plus, the trauma narrative and whether or not the novel is experimental. As always, happy listening! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Oh culture. Ohhhh culture. Where are thou? Cometh here please. Have a seat. We're gathered here to speak on 'What's Fresh In The Culture' with no other than Crowned ReRe and Mr. Al Pete. Oh, they're here to bring you Black Joy, always (Aaliyah tribute at Essence Fest, Questlove's documentary on Earth, Wind, & Fire, a podcast in dedication to Toni Morrison, etc.). On the flip though, they're here to clear some things UP (the nonsense outburst of India.Arie's comments regarding Yung Miami, Big Tigger...or his estranged wife, etc.). Get your snacks and get comfortable. Per usual, ReRe and Pete will have you laughing, disturbed, and full of Black Joy. Enjoy and share! Stay connected and keep the flowers blooming. Follow the podcast and hosts: https://www.mpn-llc.com/fftcpodcast @fftcpodcast on all socials. Follow Crowned ReRe and Mr. Al Pete on their websites and platforms to see what's next in their journeys! https://www.mpn-llc.com/fftcpodcast Crowned ReRe: https://crownones.com | Instagram: @crowned_re_re_becca Mr. Al Pete: https://mralpete.com | Instagram: @mralpete Recorded and produced by The MPN Network/Mr. Al Pete. 

The John Adams Institute is Amsterdam's home for independent American thought. John Adams himself said, "Let us tenderly and kindly cherish... the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write." For four decades, we have amassed a unique archive of great thinkers, speakers and writers, from Toni Morrison to Timothy Snyder, and from Jane Fonda to Jill Lepore. It has been our pleasure to share this treasure trove of thought and word with you. In this exclusive miniseries, we're sitting down with a few prominent voices from both sides of the Atlantic to take stock of the United States, two hundred and fifty years into its experiment in self-governance. Across these conversations, you'll hear from Ada Limón, former U.S. Poet Laureate, on art, identity, and the burden of speaking for a country; Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita of the House, on the founding promise of American democracy and the gap between promise and practice; and Edward Luce of the Financial Times, on America as a creedal nation—the fragile idea holding it together at home, and what its fracturing means for its place in the world. We believe John Adams would have wanted it that way—in fact, he explained as much in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on 3 July 1776: "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival." And so, from Amsterdam, it's Bright Minds; Out of Many, One?—the podcast from the John Adams Institute. If you're a friend of free thinking and the communities that support it, please become a member. Our independence is something we cherish, and it comes with a cost. The John Adams Institute is an independent foundation without structural subsidy, and there's always room at our table for more. Click here to find out about sponsorship or becoming a member.Support the show

From Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial to Marvin Gaye singing the National Anthem at the NBA Finals, the theme of patriotism can be heard throughout African American music. Benjamin Ross offers selections from this rich musical heritage. Also: Ann Petry's The Street, published in 1946, was the first million-selling novel by an African American author. Keith Clark says Petry deserves to be in the pantheon of other great American writers like James Baldwin or Toni Morrison. Later in the show: Poet Walt Whitman in 1862 went searching for his brother George, who had been wounded in a Civil War battle. Mara Scanlon and Brady Earnhart say Whitman was so moved by the carnage he found that he worked as a nurse for the rest of the war. Also: While Edgar Allan Poe is the master of the macabre, Jerome McGann says Poe was more charming and humorous than his famous dark fiction suggests.

En este capítulo exploramos la disciplina desde un lugar distinto: no como castigo, sino como libertad. Basado en el libro Discipline Is Destiny de Ryan Holiday, escritor estadounidense que lleva más de diez años estudiando la filosofía estoica. Holiday propone 25 hábitos concretos — hoy te comparto los tres que más me movieron.Hablamos de:— Por qué la fuerza de voluntad sola no funciona (y qué sí)— Qué tienen en común Toni Morrison, Jimmy Carter y Séneca sobre sostener lo que importa— La diferencia entre disciplina como imposición y disciplina como práctica— Qué nos enseña la meditación y Thich Nhat Hanh sobre volver sin castigartePreguntas para reflexionar:¿Qué proyecto tienes pendiente que podrías empezar mañana en la mañana?¿Cuándo fue la última vez que hiciste algo para ti antes de hacer algo para los demás?¿Lo dejaste porque no funcionaba — o porque dejaste de priorizarte?Referencias: Holiday, R. (2022). Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control. Portfolio/Penguin.Me encuentras en Instagram como @MARISALAZO.OFICIALKeywords: disciplina, hábitos, constancia, Ryan Holiday, estoicismo, Séneca, Toni Morrison, Thich Nhat Hanh, meditación, libertad, Marisa Lazo, Compartiendo con Marisa Lazo

Welcome to our new series on Toni Morrison's modern classic! In this first episode, we dig into the book's complicated narrative structure, Morrison's use of POV, the feminine nature of the story and writing, whether it's a novel of advocacy, and much more! Happy listening! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

The Author Events Series presents Namwali Serpell | On Morrison In Conversation with Angela Flournoy  Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, ''she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is highly complex.'' In On Morrison, Serpell brings her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and professor who teaches a course on Morrison to illuminate her masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry-with contextual guidance and original close readings. At once accessible and uncompromisingly rigorous, On Morrison is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant American authors of all time, but also on how to read great works of literature in general. This dialogue on the page between two black women artist-readers is stylish, edifying, and thrilling in its scope and intelligence. Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, The Furrows, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was selected as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. Her book of essays, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at Harvard University. Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an Indie Next pick, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, and UCLA. She lives in New York. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night! All tickets are non-refundable. (recorded 2/25/2026)

RTB's sister podcast, Novel Dialogue, spoke recently with Aaron Gwyn. He is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynne's War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All God's Children, which won the Oklahoma Book award, and The Cannibal Owl. In his conversation with Sean McCann of Wesleyan (A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism), we learn that Robert Lemmons is a real historical figure and so is Levi English. One way to grasp Gwyn's achievement is to consider the contrast between his durably realist work and Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Blood Meridian. Much as Aaron and Sean admire that novel, McCarthy's characters strike them as monstrous and incredible. How about Charles Portis's True Grit, asks John? Aaron loves it for its ventriloquizing power, and its truth-loving willingness to weave in unsettling back stories like Rooster Cogburn's ties to Quantrill's Rangers, an eerily modern pro-Confederate terrorist paramilitary. In NOvel Dialogue's "signature question," we learn why Aaron's favorite teacher was Robert Hill, Pink-Floyd-loving drummer and perennial inspiration (audio here). Mentioned in this episode: Richard Slotkin's notion of “the man who knows Indians” comes from Gunfighter Nation Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Herman Melville, Moby Dick William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Toni Morrison, Beloved Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow John Williams, Stoner (but also Butcher's Crossing –-which John loves— and Augustus, which did indeed split the National Book Award (not the Pulitzer) in 1973 with John Barth's Chimera. Larry McMurtry's hard-to-get-into Lonesome Dove Read transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pitt Season 2 has come to a close and Sepideh Moafi has delivered a downright brilliant first-season arc as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi. She kicked off her run in the series by swooping into the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center Emergency Department to cover for Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) during his upcoming sabbatical. Rather than wait for Robby to give her the lay of the land, Dr. Al-Hashimi jumps in feet first, immediately inserting herself into the goings-on at the hospital. As Moafi herself put it, “It was set up for her to disrupt the rhythm of this established hospital. Dr. Robby is America's golden boy, or the world's, really, golden boy, so anyone who comes in his path is going to be scrutinized to a certain degree.”In the early episodes of Season 2, she was indeed scrutinized — by Dr. Robby and the colleagues that would eventually have to work under her on the show, and also by The Pitt fans concerned about Dr. Al-Hashimi upending the ED foundation and group dynamic established during the events of Season 1. Over the course of the day, strengths and weaknesses are unearthed, but perhaps more important than anything, so is her purpose: “Delivering and finding ways within this broken system to find creative solutions to deliver the best quality care for patients.” Moafi added another concept inspired by Toni Morrison that she held especially tight to; “If you are free, your job is to free somebody else. If you have some power, then you need to empower somebody else.” Dr. Al-Hashimi abides by those principles every step of the way in The Pitt Season 2, and at the end of the season, it's revealed that while working toward those goals, she's also trying to figure out how to live her life and do her work with a seizure disorder.With all of The Pitt Season 2 now available to watch on HBO Max, Moafi carved out the time for a Collider Ladies Night conversation to revisit her journey to the hit medical drama and also her experience making Dr. Al-Hashimi's Season 2 arc feel especially full. On top of that, Moafi also took a moment to look to the future. While we still don't know if Moafi will continue on with the show, she certainly has some powerful ideas for where the writers could take her character in Season 3. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two men from Mississippi's Gulf Coast wonder if America is finally willing to grow up. Watch this conversation on YouTube As we approach America's 250th anniversary, Russell is joined by fellow southern Mississippi native and public intellectual Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. to talk about race, memory, patriotism, and the stories nations tell themselves in order to avoid repentance.  Drawing from his new book America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries, Glaude argues that the danger facing the country is not simply historical ignorance, but a “storybook” version of America that shields us from confronting what is broken underneath.  While talking about Baldwin, Bellah, Bonhoeffer, Toni Morrison, and the civil rights movement, the two explore the tension between love of country and idolatry of nation, the persistence of racial inequality, and why prophetic truth-telling requires both courage and hope.  Ultimately, Glaude's message asks more questions than it answers, but gently ushers us toward love, reconciliation, and redemption at a time when we really need it. Keep up with Russell: Subscribe to Russell on Substack Sign up for the weekly Moore to the Point newsletter  Submit a question for the show at questions@russellmoore.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we're excited to share a bonus episode: the first episode of "PASSAGES: On Morrison," produced by our friends at Random House Publishing Group. This new podcast takes reading on the road, as Namwali Serpell — novelist, critic, and Harvard professor — joins fellow writers and skilled readers in conversation to pore over excerpts of Toni Morrison's prose. The show is the record of a traveling salon, a celebration of Morrison's extraordinary work, and a love letter to reading closely in community. You'll hear Serpell in conversation with poet and former host of The Slowdown, Tracy K. Smith. Together, they read the opening of THE BLUEST EYE, Toni Morrison's debut novel, and discuss all that the passage emits and erases. The second episode, featuring acclaimed poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, is also available to listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Amanda Peet is in the new film ‘Fantasy Life' and the series ‘Your Friends & Neighbors.' In a recent piece in ‘The New Yorker,' she wrote about being diagnosed with breast cancer while both of her parents were in hospice. “I didn't really have that ‘why me?' thing. Maybe because I am Jewish and am always waiting for that other shoe to drop. In this case it was three shoes,” she told Terry Gross. Also, we'll talk about Toni Morrison with Harvard professor Namwali Serpell. She says no matter how many times she returns to Morrison's work, she finds something new.  She's still haunted by the last sentence of the novel ‘Sula.' “When that sentence comes into my life, whether I'm reading it to teach, whether I'm rereading it to write, whether I'm reading it out loud, even just now, tears always spring to my eyes," Serpell says. She spoke with Tonya Mosley.   David Bianculli reviews the new Apple TV series ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles.'See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

In a new book, Harvard professor Namwali Serpell makes the case that we have been reading one of the most celebrated writers in American history all wrong. ‘On Morrison' is a deep dive into the Nobel Laureate's complete body of work — her 11 novels, plays, and criticism. Serpell has been teaching Morrison for nearly two decades, and she says no matter how many times she returns to the work, she still finds something new. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead reviews two new biographies of composers and pianists born 40 years apart.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy