CLSC: 'The Source of Self-Regard'
Art and Democracy • 16-Jul-2020
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, 2020.
John Hoppenthaler presents Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard.
The Source of Self-Regard, released in February 2019, was Morrison’s final published work as she died in August 2019. Morrison was an American novelist, essayist, book editor with a collection of work that spanned four decades.
Hoppenthaler, who served as Morrison’s personal assistant for nine years, will showcase the book to Chautauqua. He is also the author of the poetry collections Lives of Water, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Domestic Garden.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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