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In celebration of Toni Morrison’s birthday, NBF is posting quotes throughout the day from her speech “The Dancing Mind”, delivered on her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on November 6, 1996.

In honor of Black History Month, and for the second consecutive year, NBF presents a timeline of the first African Americans to become National Book Award honored authors.
Happy birthday Oprah Winfrey! To celebrate, here’s a #TBT of Oprah at the 1999 National Book Awards where she was the recipient of the 50th Anniversary Gold Medal.
Bonus #TBT: Oprah is standing next to Toni Morrison, the 1996 recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
#TBT to 1953, the year Ralph Ellison became the first African American to win a National Book Award for the now classic novel Invisible Man. Upon accepting the award, Ellison said “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, but yet thrusting forth it’s images of hope, human fraternity, and individual self realization.” Read Ellison’s speech here.
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson with (from left) Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ralph Ellison, and Ellison’s wife Fanny at the 1991 National Book Awards.
That night, Patterson made history when he became the first African American to win a National Book Award for Nonfiction for his groundbreaking history book, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture.
First edition of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man on display at Penguin Random House’s headquarters. Ellison was the first African American writer to win a National Book Award.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
