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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Look what I saw on the elevator in the @modernlanguage.bsky.social office building, @danaawilliams.bsky.social !!

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Jun 18

IT'S OUT!

Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 9

Look what’s coming soon 👀…. Official publication date, June 17 | Amistad Press

#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory

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Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social · Jun 18

"With great respect and meticulous research, @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social reveals [Toni] Morrison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." -- Martha Southgate via @nytimes.com

You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

www.nytimes.com

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 14

Tributes to #NikkiGiovanni continue. The Schomburg Centennial Festival opened with a young scholars’ poetry reading. The tradition continues.

Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 13

Howard University’s Dana A. Williams Launches “Toni at Random” on June 17 | The Dig at Howard University thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/...

Howard University’s Dana A. Williams Launches “Toni at Random” on June 17

Dana A. Williams, dean of the graduate school set to publish "Toni at Random" with Harper Collins.

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 9

Go get your hardcopy today with 20% off from Harper Collins! #toniatrandom @amistadbooks.bsky.social

Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 8

Can’t wait! 🫶

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 8

Soon come!

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thank you!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · May 28

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

www.theguardian.com

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 22

@publisherswkly.bsky.social Her first project at the imprint, a 1972 anthology of African literature, laid the groundwork for her “editorial aesthetic.” #toniatrandom

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · May 9

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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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 22

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

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 22

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

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Dana A. Williams @danaawilliams.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 9

Look what’s coming soon 👀…. Official publication date, June 17 | Amistad Press

#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory

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Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 9

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

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