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...niches. Yet we hold to the faith that intelligent people are curious about what's new in all sorts of fields, from politics to art, religion to technology. Just like us, they can be interested in both Saddam Hussein and Monica Lewinsky, Andrew Grove and Princess Diana, Toni Morrison and Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, Ken Starr and Matt Damon...
...seemed. In 1975, the 25-year-old Gayl stunned the literary world with Corregidora, a fiercely written novel about incest, slavery and abuse. Jones mined the same brutal field in Eva's Man, in which the protagonist bites off a man's penis. Toni Morrison was her editor; John Updike praised her work. Another book followed. And at just 26, she was tenured at the University of Michigan. But after she arrived at the university, Gayl got involved with Bob, then known as Bob Higgins. (He would later take her name.) In 1983, Bob spewed invectives and brandished...
...disruptive presence was quickly felt in Gayl's life. Morrison's relationship with Gayl was severed in the wake of his demand that she audition to edit Gayl's fourth book. Says Morrison: "I wrote her a letter saying that editing her work was a highlight of my life but that I thought she needed an editor she could trust." Other friends and relatives also found themselves cut off. When the two ran off to Europe, Gayl left behind letters addressed to the university and Ronald Reagan, declaring, "I reject your lying, racist s___. God is with...
During the question and answer session whichfollowed the reading. Morrison said her writingwas influenced more by paintings rather than byliterature, and said she liked reading authors whoshe felt had different styles than...
...ever think one of my sentences looks likesomeone else's, I'd throw it away," Morrison said...