Check out this great article, which includes quotes from Toni Morrison, Rick Moody, Jane Smiley, and others, on how Obama is the first writer president. A snippet:
Morrison finds herself wondering how some of her late friends would have reacted, like James Baldwin (“How I miss him now,” she says), who in the 1960s had scorned as condescending Robert Kennedy’s prediction that the United States would have a black president in 40 years. Were “Invisible Man” author Ralph Ellison still alive, he would have renamed his classic novel “Visible Man,” Morrison joked.
one of the most inspiring aricles to read on a friday morning we are all praying that the new era we have been waiting for is truly here.