Anyone serious about #AfricanAmericanliterature #BlackLiterature needs to read this book, written by a #HowardUniversity dean! #ToniMorrison #RandomHouse #Blackwriting #Blackwriters #toniatrandom #danaawilliams
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Anyone serious about #AfricanAmericanliterature #BlackLiterature needs to read this book, written by a #HowardUniversity dean! #ToniMorrison #RandomHouse #Blackwriting #Blackwriters #toniatrandom #danaawilliams
I’m pretty sure I’ve written this exact letter before.
In other words, everyone go pre-order Gotham at War!
#AmReading #ToniatRandom #Nonfiction
In other words, everyone go pre-order Gotham at War!
#AmReading #ToniatRandom #Nonfiction
August 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I’m pretty sure I’ve written this exact letter before.
In other words, everyone go pre-order Gotham at War!
#AmReading #ToniatRandom #Nonfiction
In other words, everyone go pre-order Gotham at War!
#AmReading #ToniatRandom #Nonfiction
📚 #ToniAtRandom by #DanaAWilliams #Book #Review – the #editorial years of a literary great.
This illuminating account of #ToniMorrison’s time at #RandomHouse reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America.
#Literature #Publishing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
This illuminating account of #ToniMorrison’s time at #RandomHouse reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America.
#Literature #Publishing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Toni at Random by Dana A Williams review – the editorial years of a literary great
This illuminating account of Toni Morrison’s time at Random House reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
📚 #ToniAtRandom by #DanaAWilliams #Book #Review – the #editorial years of a literary great.
This illuminating account of #ToniMorrison’s time at #RandomHouse reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America.
#Literature #Publishing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
This illuminating account of #ToniMorrison’s time at #RandomHouse reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America.
#Literature #Publishing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Look what’s coming soon 👀…. Official publication date, June 17 | Amistad Press
#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory
#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory
May 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Look what’s coming soon 👀…. Official publication date, June 17 | Amistad Press
#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory
#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory
Another Monday evening in #Houston means another amazing #KindredStories event. I had the pleasure of listening to my amazing Soror, @danaawilliams.bsky.social talk about her equally amazing new book, #ToniatRandom. Get your copy from your fave indie bookseller.
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Another Monday evening in #Houston means another amazing #KindredStories event. I had the pleasure of listening to my amazing Soror, @danaawilliams.bsky.social talk about her equally amazing new book, #ToniatRandom. Get your copy from your fave indie bookseller.
Welcome to my official page! I’m Dr. Dana A. Williams — Soul Story Teller, Bridge Builder, Above/Below Ground Conductor — Professor of African American Literature
Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University.
#DanaAWilliams #BlackLit #toniatrandom #HBCUpride #ToniatRandon
Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University.
#DanaAWilliams #BlackLit #toniatrandom #HBCUpride #ToniatRandon
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Welcome to my official page! I’m Dr. Dana A. Williams — Soul Story Teller, Bridge Builder, Above/Below Ground Conductor — Professor of African American Literature
Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University.
#DanaAWilliams #BlackLit #toniatrandom #HBCUpride #ToniatRandon
Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University.
#DanaAWilliams #BlackLit #toniatrandom #HBCUpride #ToniatRandon
Join me tomorrow June 14 at 2 PM EST at @Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library for all thing hashtag#toniatrandom
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June 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Join me tomorrow June 14 at 2 PM EST at @Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library for all thing hashtag#toniatrandom
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This looks amazing! “One can imagine that Toni Morrison’s skill as a writer and her skill as an editor worked together in her capacious mind, one feeding the other.” #ToniAtRandom www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This looks amazing! “One can imagine that Toni Morrison’s skill as a writer and her skill as an editor worked together in her capacious mind, one feeding the other.” #ToniAtRandom www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
Is there anything better than literary gossip? The relationship between writer and editor is fractious, tender, and ever-changing, with resentments and gratitude sloshing back and forth like a rooftop pool during an earthquake. #toniatrandom
May 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Is there anything better than literary gossip? The relationship between writer and editor is fractious, tender, and ever-changing, with resentments and gratitude sloshing back and forth like a rooftop pool during an earthquake. #toniatrandom
I want to make some crack about publishers publishing books about publishing just so other publishing professionals can buy them.
But Toni is no questions asked a pantheon figure for me and making jokes feels like sacrilege.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom
💙📚 #nonfiction
But Toni is no questions asked a pantheon figure for me and making jokes feels like sacrilege.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom
💙📚 #nonfiction
August 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I want to make some crack about publishers publishing books about publishing just so other publishing professionals can buy them.
But Toni is no questions asked a pantheon figure for me and making jokes feels like sacrilege.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom
💙📚 #nonfiction
But Toni is no questions asked a pantheon figure for me and making jokes feels like sacrilege.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom
💙📚 #nonfiction
Go get your hardcopy today with 20% off from Harper Collins! #toniatrandom @amistadbooks.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Go get your hardcopy today with 20% off from Harper Collins! #toniatrandom @amistadbooks.bsky.social
@publisherswkly.bsky.social Her first project at the imprint, a 1972 anthology of African literature, laid the groundwork for her “editorial aesthetic.” #toniatrandom
Dana A. Williams spotlights Toni Morrison’s efforts to shepherd Black literature into the mainstream in this enthralling chronicle of her tenure as an editor at Random House in the 1960s and ’70s. The result is a triumphant account of an underexplored aspect of her influence on American literature.
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship by Dana A Williams
Howard University English professor Williams (In the Light of Likeness—Transformed) spotlights Toni Morrison’s efforts to shephe...
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May 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
@publisherswkly.bsky.social Her first project at the imprint, a 1972 anthology of African literature, laid the groundwork for her “editorial aesthetic.” #toniatrandom
“What she would not tolerate, however, was a temperamental author who had convinced himself that he knew more about book publishing than she did.”
😝 As if I needed more reasons to love Toni Morrison.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom #booksky #nonfiction
😝 As if I needed more reasons to love Toni Morrison.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom #booksky #nonfiction
August 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“What she would not tolerate, however, was a temperamental author who had convinced himself that he knew more about book publishing than she did.”
😝 As if I needed more reasons to love Toni Morrison.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom #booksky #nonfiction
😝 As if I needed more reasons to love Toni Morrison.
#AmReading #ToniAtRandom #booksky #nonfiction
Is there anything better than literary gossip? The relationship between writer and editor is fractious, tender, and ever-changing, with resentments and gratitude sloshing back and forth like a rooftop pool during an earthquake. Now imagine the editor in question is Toni Morrison. #toniatrandom
May 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is there anything better than literary gossip? The relationship between writer and editor is fractious, tender, and ever-changing, with resentments and gratitude sloshing back and forth like a rooftop pool during an earthquake. Now imagine the editor in question is Toni Morrison. #toniatrandom