you went to princeton for undergrad and toni morrison was one of your teachers, is that true?ou go into that with such great expectations as to what it will be like to work with toni morrison. did it live up to your expectations? >> absolutely, yeah. i was a huge -- i mean, a huge fan of hers before i went there and met her. and she was really a great -- a great teacher. i have been thinking about it a lot. it's really wonderful. she really encouraged a lot of risk-taking and experimentation, and i -- and it's amazing i don't remember her ever saying, like, "you can't do that." like, it was always like very -- her trying to figure out what i wanted to do. achieve my own goals. and that was really important to me at the time. >> seth: do you feel not only that you learned lessons from her as how to write, but do you also feel that you channel her as a teacher at all in your class? do you borrow from that a little? >> i try to. i would hope i do. >> seth: yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> seth: well we're going to have your class in next week, and we're going to -- i'm going sit them here

defence so i have been fighting guys a lot taller than me, now i'm fighting this mini mike tyson, toni morrisonaining techniques and get ready to dig deep and stand in the trenches and train. if not i will be jabbing and train. if not i will be jabbing and getting caught. because he is a lot shorter that is going to be his game, to take me out of my rhythm andi game, to take me out of my rhythm and i need to learn how to deal with it. you wouldn't bet against him, and the joshua speaking you wouldn't bet against him, and thejoshua speaking to mike costello. a look at some of teh day's other stories.. britain'sjohanna konta has split with her coach wim fisette. having teamed up together ahead of the 2017 season, their partnership took her to the wimbledon semi finals. but she's won only two of her matches since, losing her last five. that run has seen her miss out on the end of season wta rankings for the second season in a row. britain's heather watson has made it two wins from two at the luxembourg 0pen and is into the quarterfinals after beating anett kontaveit in straight sets. she'll play e

been an american win the nobel prize in literature since one thousand nine hundred three with toni morrison so when you consider all the great american writers like francis cormac mccarthy hard love to see honored with the nobel. marilynne robinson. you know any program that there's probably a hundred writers who should have been on the list before him so it was such a disappointment last year david van an author and professor of english in creative writing at work university of u.k. thank you very much for joining us on a program to spain now where the crisis over catalan independence has hit a deadlock spain's government has rejected calls for talks over what it calls an illegal movement and says it won't give in to blackmail officials in catalonia have threatened to announce their split from spain as soon as next week they claim some ninety percent of catalans voted for independence in last week's referendum. not everyone in catalonia once independence these demonstrators in the regions capital bus alona are against the independence process which the spanish government also rejects is il

. >> i will just throw in and i am reading beloved by a tony morrison right now. suggest in terms of how that is unfolding very slowly. it is just so gut-wrenching. it is a must read. >> i want to get your thoughts on something i grew up reading everything the finding the books retried to do read in school and then a few years ago i found out they were studying but that they read school books but maybe not the tissue rand your list? but with those diversity things but also affair is just an ignorance not having a clue what the kids are going through and that they will actually be helpful for your kids growing up. so the fear and ignorance so i grew up reading if you actually give them books that they want to. >> with your statement about ignorance because of a lot of the rhetoric you hear in the news nowadays is complete ignorance about culture that is a no-brainer but that problem for a lot of people so if you grow up reading diverse books you have that window that would change as a person. but indeed they get in deep i think that would be hard to shake that off.

. >> i mean, i will just throw in, i'm happy to be reading beloved by tony morrison right now and it really should be read by everyone. i mean, just in terms of the -- how this book is sort of unfolding very, very slowly and then what happens and what you find out is just -- it's just so gut-wrenching that it would be ashamed not to be exposed to that and i think it's a must, must read really, yeah. >> hi, guys, my name is sam and i wonder -- i want to get your thoughts on something, i grew up reading at a very young age, i read everything, but i found, you know that the books that were fine to read in school were boring compared to the things that you actually want to read at home and i remember there was a huge shift that happened a few years ago when i found out they were studying speak in school, wait, what, you guys are starting to read cool books but i guess maybe not, not fully yet because you ran through a list, all of those are ban, i wonder if the diversity thing is interesting that i never thought of before but i wonder if there's ignorance, not having a clue what your kid

looking for ghost that is aren't white, they are easy to find, maybe not in shock bottom itself but tony morrison, not a house in the country that ain't packed with death negro's grief, workers under the work progress administration began collecting stories of former sleighs, everything from recollections of day-to-day lives, questions about clothing, medicine and first-hand accounts of slave mistreatment. stories compiled from 17 states from indiana to florida accelerated with urgency once it became clear that the firsthand accounts were quickly disappearing, for more than two-thirds of respondents were in their 80's from 1936 to 1938. america's understanding of slavery had been with nostalgia, involving slaves and owners that emphasized life by harris uncle folk tale which became the song for disney song of the south. narrative collected by the wepa thought a more neutral approach, allow today speak in voices, those interviewed offered a version of the landscape. interviewers were given a list of questions to ask and one of them, number 13, asked specifically about ghosts. respondents remembere