Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Toni Morrison ("A Mercy: A Novel"):
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Description of Pictures: Toni Morrison: "A Mercy: A Novel". We are honored to present the Nobel Laureate. She returns to the theme of slavery; this time, in a period soon after the nation’s founding. A Publishers Weekly starred preview says, “Morrison’s lyricism infuses the shifting voices of her characters … Morrison’s unflinching narrative is all the more powerful for its relative brevity.”
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MORRIS_081204_0025.JPG: Esther Foer and Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0061.JPG: Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0100.JPG: Ronald Abramson, Anne Abramson (standing), and Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0205.JPG: Carla Cohen
MORRIS_081204_0262.JPG: Toni Morrison @ Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
MORRIS_081204_0562.JPG: Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0579.JPG: Carla Cohen, Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0581.JPG: Author Toni Morrison, seen here at a Politics and Prose + Sixth and I Historic Synagogue event back in 2008, passed on August 6, 2019. The Nobel Prize winner in Literature spent six decades at her craft which inspired many. "If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." -- Song of Solomon, 1977. She flew.
MORRIS_081204_0649.JPG: Toni Morrison and Carla Cohen
MORRIS_081204_0797.JPG: Carla Cohen, Toni Morrison
MORRIS_081204_0854.JPG: Toni Morrison and Carla Cohen
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2008 photos: Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year.
Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater.
Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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