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Lit Lib Weekly vol 2. | Happy Birthday Toni Morrison & Audre Lorde! More book recs, Lunar Lit, and apply to our first Lit Lib Circle! All inside!

Happy Friday!

It would be negligent to allow this week to close and not celebrate the births of two of our greatest literary voices—Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Their words and work serve as a testament to the resilience and ways of being in this body, both Black and woman. They continue to be historians and help us chart a path towards the future through what they’ve left behind. What an honor to have shared this timeline with them.

Thank you Toni & Audre for everything. All of it.

• “Mourning for Whiteness,” The New Yorker

• Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134, The Paris Review

• Toni Morrison: ‘I want to feel what I feel, even if it’s not happiness,’ The Guardian

• The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison, The New York Times

• A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, BOMB Magazine

• The Legacy of Audre Lorde, The Paris Review

• The Afterlives of Audre Lorde, The New York Times

• Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire, Lit Hub