It’s time for our annual Toni Morrison read for The Stacks Book Club! Author, Minda Honey is back to discuss Tar Baby, a novel about colorism, the class divide and gender roles. We dig into the book’s title, unpack the ending and question who we were rooting for throughout the book.
There are spoilers on today’s episode.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our November book club pick will be.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
- The Heartbreak Years by Minda Honey
- “Ep. 34 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Renée Hicks)” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 126 Sula by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Brit Bennett)” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 191 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Dawnie Walton)” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 208 A Mercy by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Imani Perry)” (The Stacks)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- The Stacks Pack
- Woody Allen
- Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
- University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
- Rachel Lindsay
- Tayshia Adams
- Madison Keys
- Mike McDaniel
- “Mike McDaniel: I identify as a human being and my dad is Black; it’s weird that it comes up” (NBC Sports)
- “The next great black tennis player isn’t black or white — she’s Madison Keys” (LZ Granderson, Andscape)
- A Different World (NBC)
- Things I Should Have Told My Daughter by Pearl Cleage
- “Ep. 287 Ending Racism with Minda Honey” (The Stacks)
- Michel Foucault
- Clue
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- “The Story of Margaret Garner: Inspiration for ‘Beloved’” (Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University)
- Trevante Rhodes
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
- Daniel Kaluuya
- Jeremy Irons
- Watchmen (HBO)
- Nicole Kidman
- Michelle Williams
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Zendaya
- Ruth Negga
- Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021)
- Tessa Thompson
- Jeffrey Wright
- Chandra Wilson
- Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
- Regina King
- Viola Davis
- The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)
- Severance by Ling Ma
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