Emily's Reviews > Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

A testament to Toni Morrison and her editorial genius and the genius of editing as shown through Toni Morrison. This book never gets into the weeds of editorship: reading hundreds of manuscripts for the gems and then cutting those into the beautifully faceted gems that make editorship a jeweler's metaphor, you know what I'm saying. The mechanics of editing is mostly alluded to or hovering in the background.

Toni at Random profiles some of Morrison's best authors: Black fiction, Black non-fiction, African literary anthology, and an anthology of train literature. My TBR was expanded, although on some level, my Half Price Books soul is throwing some of these basement-smelling, 70s looking anthologies into the recycling bin based on cover art, but that was the style at the time, and it's not books' fault that they become old until they get republished as "edited by Toni Morrison." Some of Morrison's authors became good friends, some would have been if circumstances were different, and some were divas who didn't understand marketing. Morrison nurtured some important works onto the bookshelves of what used to be and still freaking is a white male-dominated publishing industry. This was a great audio listen.