Oprah has spoken and #ToniatRandom is one of our favorite things.

Anyone serious about #AfricanAmericanliterature #BlackLiterature needs to read this book, written by a #HowardUniversity dean! #ToniMorrison #RandomHouse #Blackwriting #Blackwriters #toniatrandom #danaawilliams

Another Monday evening in #Houston means another amazing #KindredStories event. I had the pleasure of listening to my amazing Soror, @danaawilliams.bsky.social talk about her equally amazing new book, #ToniatRandom. Get your copy from your fave indie bookseller.

A page from Toni at Random, features a letter in which Morrison boasts about getting a significant first print run.

I’m pretty sure I’ve written this exact letter before.

In other words, everyone go pre-order Gotham at War!

#AmReading #ToniatRandom #Nonfiction

“What she would not tolerate, however, was a temperamental author who had convinced himself that he knew more about book publishing than she did.”

😝 As if I needed more reasons to love Toni Morrison.

#AmReading #ToniAtRandom #booksky #nonfiction

Toni at Random by Dana Williams

I want to make some crack about publishers publishing books about publishing just so other publishing professionals can buy them.

But Toni is no questions asked a pantheon figure for me and making jokes feels like sacrilege.

#AmReading #ToniAtRandom

💙📚 #nonfiction

Toni at Random by Dana A Williams review – the editorial years of a literary great This illuminating account of Toni Morrison’s time at Random House reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America

📚 #ToniAtRandom by #DanaAWilliams #Book #Review – the #editorial years of a literary great.

This illuminating account of #ToniMorrison’s time at #RandomHouse reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America.

#Literature #Publishing

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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

This looks amazing! “One can imagine that Toni Morrison’s skill as a writer and her skill as an editor worked together in her capacious mind, one feeding the other.” #ToniAtRandom www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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