The Writer Before the Page

From The Source of Self-Regard

Author  Toni Morrison
The Writer Before the Page

A Vintage Shorts selection.

In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writer’s task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of lecture series and collected in The Source of Self-Regard, these pieces exhibit the depth with which Morrison probes the capacity and power of literature. 

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October 29, 2019
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Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown

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Phantom Pond

Phantom Pond

Juneau Black
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Ghosts and Speculation

Kevin Brockmeier
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Richard Russo
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Juneau Black
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Goldfish

Raymond Chandler
The Bearded Lady

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Ross Macdonald
Dead Man

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James M. Cain
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Richard Bausch
Kashtanka

Kashtanka

Anton Chekhov
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Making Love with the Land

Joshua Whitehead
A Book of Days

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Nowhere, Exactly

M.G. Vassanji
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Margaret Atwood
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A Private Spy

John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
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Salman Rushdie
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Compiled by Shaun Usher
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