CSPAN2 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony July 12, 2024
Acceptance speech in new york city. Good evening. Thank you stephen in the book critics circle for inviting me for Toni Morrison for the Lifetime Achievement award although she certainly doesnt need an introduction with celebratory tributes to the great novelist of their time. You have to rattle off her accomplishments to you tonight by and large you are deeply familiar and then to recognize the rising star in 1977 and that is from her book song of solomon. You dont need me to remind you hear the honorees and those other works. And i assume you dont want me to whittle away moments at the podiu...