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In the deep, sprawling 1977 story of Milkman Dead, the reviewer Reynolds Price found evidence for “the possibility of transcendence within human life.”

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Thornwillow Launches a Kickstarter Campaign for Song of Solomon! Thornwillow Press to publish the first-ever fine press edition of a Toni Morrison novel! There is, perhaps, no greater figure in recent American literature than Toni Morrison. A once-in-a-generation talent, known for both her unflinching look at race in the United States and her luminescent prose, Morrison received the Pu...

Toni Morrison‘s Nobel prize-winning book Song of Solomon will soon be turned into a limited series by Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom filmmaker George C. Wolfe. Published in 1977, the book tells the story of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III, a Black man living in Michigan as the son of the richest Black family in town. But that’s hardly the most interesting detail about this character and his family. Here’s the official description of Song of Solomon from inside the book jacket (via Amazon): Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out o...