“Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory” includes early drafts, Post-it notes, and screenplays from the writer’s vast archives.
More often than not, readers only encounter a text in its most polished form, when the action flows seamlessly and characters seem to leap off the page. But a new exhibition dedicated to the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison reveals what many writers would rather keep hidden: just how tough and unnatural writing a book can feel. At Princeton University’s Firestone Library,
Womack began curating “Sites of Memory” in the summer of 2020. “Somewhere along the way, we realized we were on our own archaeological dig,” she tells me during a tour of the exhibition. “We worked to reconstruct parts of Toni Morrison’s creative process and worked to prioritize the labor, the study, and the rigor that is at the heart of the work itself.”
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