Piers Morgan has slammed singer Adele after she had to push back her Las Vegas gigs amid an outbreak of Covid in her team which meant her show 'wasn't ready'.
Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book
07.01.2022 - 11:37 / abcnews.go.com
NEW YORK -- To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.”But the Nobel laureate did not confine herself to one kind of writing.Morrison also completed plays, poems, essays, and short stories, one of which is coming out as a book on Feb. 1.
“Recitatif,” written by Morrison in the early 1980s and rarely seen over the following decades, follows the lives of two women from childhood to their contrasting fortunes as adults. Zadie Smith contributes an introduction and the story's audio edition is read by the actor Bahni Turpin.According to Autumn M.
Womack, a professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University (where Morrison taught for years), the author had written short fiction at least since her college years at Howard University and Cornell University, though she never published a story collection. “Recitatif” was included in the 1983 release “Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women,” co-edited by the poet-playwright Amiri Baraka and now out of print.“One of the main takeaways from it (‘Recitatif’) is that you'll begin to think of her as someone who experimented with form.
You'll get away from the idea that she was solely a novelist and think of her as someone who was trying all kinds of writing,” Womack said.“Recitatif” refers to a musical expression defined by Merriam-Webster as “a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech,” a style Morrison's often suggested. The story tells of a series of encounters between Roberta and Twyla, one of whom is Black, the other white, although we are left to guess which is which.They meet as girls at the St.
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Piers Morgan brands Adele a 'pampered prima donna' over cancelled Las Vegas gigs
Piers Morgan didn't hold back when offering his thoughts on Adele's decision to cancel her Las Vegas residency just days before it was scheduled to start. The songstress announced last week in an emotional video that the show wouldn't be going ahead, telling her 49 million Instagram followers: “It ain’t ready.” ”I'm so sorry but my show ain't ready," she confessed in the clip.
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26.01.2022 / 08:33
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24.01.2022 / 20:47
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Lee Daniels-Directed Exorcism Thriller With Andra Day, Octavia Spencer, Glenn Close, Rob Morgan, Caleb McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis Scares Up $65M+ Netflix Deal After Head-Spinning 7-Bidder Battle
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24.01.2022 / 19:55
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Amanda Holden shares rare snap of lookalike daughter in adorable birthday tribute
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