The world lost a luminous author and teacher over the summer when Toni Morrison died at the age of 88. Her work, which often used fiction to help readers navigate moral conundrums our dirtbag friends could never help us with, is the focus of a free-to-attend mid-week celebration that features comments from Warehouse Arts District Executive Director Diane Bailey Morton, St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin, Studio@620 co-founder Bob Devin Jones and Tampa Bay Times Books Editor Colette Bancroft. Tombolo Books will have Morrison books for sale, and a screening of “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" follows.
Tues. Nov. 12, 7 p.m. Free with registration. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, 253 5th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 7 p.m. mypalladium.org.
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This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 7, 2019.