Tar Baby Resources

This is the official website of Eatonville, "the oldest black municipality in America."

The Toni Morrison society has literature on Morrison, hosts events and symposiums, and is affiliated with Bucknell University. If you love Toni Morrison and you're looking for a place where fandom meets Lit Crit, this is the place for you.

Check out Toni Morrison's biography and marvel at the life of the woman and her awesome literary prowess.

Not so much two thumbs up as two thumbs sorta held to the side. WTF, NYTimes?

The New Republic takes a crack at this question… and says the answer lies in the context.

The Paris Review is famous for it's awesome and awesomely well-researched author interviews. Morrison's interview doesn't disappoint.

Morrison chats with the Guardian on the other side of the pond. We could listen to this woman talk all day.

Another Morrison interview, this time with Salon. The awesomeness keeps coming fast and furious.

This article suggests Queen B to star, and Woody Allen to direct. Hmm… that could just work.

It's the real-life equivalent of Eloe, Florida. Eatonville is "the town freedom built."

We squealed with joy when we saw just how much Morrison goodness happens in this video.

Tar Baby came out in 1981. What's Morrison working on now? This video gives some insight.

No, they're not making a movie of Tar Baby. But the Br'er Rabbit and Tar Baby folktale did feature in the antiquated Disney movie The Song of The South. Here it is!

It doesn't surprise us in the least that Toni Morrison has some ghostly experience.

If you ever wondered what the precursors to audiobooks sounded like, you're in luck. Wonder no longer.

Um, yeah. When you get a work by Matisse on your book cover, you know you're getting the Nobel Prize eventually.

Wonder what it looked like? This s a good guess.

This is the grossness that comes from punching a tar baby, Disney-style.