Toni Morrison Gone

from AP World mourns the death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ″Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American...

“I could puke every time I hear it.”

from the Guardian From everyteen to annoying: are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye? JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield once seemed the universal voice of teenage angst, but now he’s too quaint for young people. Can we learn to love it again,...

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from The Fix Silencing that Voice  By Boozemusings Co… In the last few months of my long and illustrious drinking career, there was a voice that began to whisper melodically to me. I heard it’s song nightly near the end of the second bottle of wine. The...