#Toni Morrison

The 2020 award season capped off its winter segment with the flyest award show of the year -- the 51st Annual NAACP Image Awards, which honors outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in film, music, TV, and literature. The award show took place in Pasadena, California, with

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Information will never replace illumination,” Susan Sontag prophesied shortly before her death, before the birth of the social media newsfeed, as she considered the conscience of words and writer’s responsibility to society. A generation earlier,

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is,” Susan Sontag asserted in considering the conscience of words. “Words are events, they do things, change things,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her splendid meditation on the magic of real

Author: Jose Antonio Vargas / Source: Big Think These books, from authors like Toni Morrison and John F. Kennedy, open up a whole new perspective on the American landscape. Read Jose Antonio Vargas’ groundbreaking essay on life as an undocumented migrant in The New York Times Magazine. Growing

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Forget your personal tragedy,” Ernest Hemingway exhorted his dear friend F. Scott Fitzgerald in a tough-love letter of advice. “Good writers always come back. Always.” It is an insight as true of writers as it is of all artists and of human beings in