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Knopf has just published, with notes and an introduction by the literary scholar and Princeton professor Claudia Brodsky, a new collection of Morrison’s lectures on the great books: “Language as Liber... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Knopf published a new collection of Morrison’s lectures titled “Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon” with notes and an introduct...

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Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had, in his estimation, befallen Morrison. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had befallen Morrison

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“Over the years, through my work and experience as a literature professor and fiction writer” — of the novels “The Old Drift” and “The Furrows” — “I’ve learned a lot about the Black cultural tradition... 0.900

👤 Namwali Serpell 📋 News Article

Simplified: Serpell learned a lot about Black cultural traditions that ground her aesthetics.

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It’s the rigor of a mind, plumbing. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: It is the rigor of a mind.

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Her mind is alive. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Her mind is alive.

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There are moments in the assessments of each book, up through “Paradise” — novel No. 7 — and on almost every page of the chapter devoted to “Jazz,” where I could hear a sizzle. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: There are moments in the assessments of each book where I could hear a sizzle.

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Each chapter in “On Morrison” feeds the novels through a single grand idea or two: comedy in “Song of Solomon,” the function of names in “Sula” and numbers in “Paradise.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Each chapter in “On Morrison” feeds the novels through a single grand idea or two.

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Evidently, Namwali Serpell, the novelist and, in the pages of The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, an absorbingly surgical critic, has been one of us waiting people. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Namwali Serpell has been one of us waiting people.

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What Serpell’s written, devised, built is “On Morrison,” a novel-by-novel treatise on, inspection of, spelunking into, playing with Morrisonian philosophy, aesthetics, craft; and she might be having t... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Serpell wrote “On Morrison” a novel-by-novel treatise.

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Morrison, I think, does this to people who care enough to burrow into the text: exhilarate their intellect. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Morrison exhilarates intellect of people who burrow into the text.

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The critical enterprise of “On Morrison” corresponds with a quickening moral imperative to keep Morrison on our lips, to keep her lofty, stratospheric. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: The critical enterprise of “On Morrison” corresponds with a moral imperative to keep Morrison on our lips.

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The author connected painting to excavating or treating a surface instead of making an image. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Interview 🏷️ Art

Simplified: Author connected painting to excavating or treating a surface instead of making an image

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The author realized the act of sweeping reflected the accumulation of the day while working as a custodian at David Zwirner. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Interview 🏷️ Art

Simplified: Author realized act of sweeping reflected accumulation of the day while working as custodian at David Zwirner

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A lot of produce comes into the country through Hunts Point on barges. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Interview

Simplified: Produce comes into country through Hunts Point on barges

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From the author's apartment nearby, you can sometimes hear the East River or the planes from LaGuardia. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Interview 🏷️ Location

Simplified: From author's apartment you can sometimes hear East River or planes from LaGuardia

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The author began this ritual in 2003. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Interview

Simplified: Author began this ritual in 2003

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Mr. Mango is a market that’s open 24 hours. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business

Simplified: Mr. Mango is market open 24 hours

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Kenny Rivero is an artist. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , People

Simplified: Kenny Rivero is artist

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Amanda’s Good Morning Café is open at 8 a.m. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Food , Business

Simplified: Amanda’s Good Morning Café is open at 8 a.m.

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Amanda Perdomo is a pastry chef. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Food , People

Simplified: Amanda Perdomo is pastry chef

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