{"podcast":{"title":"92NY Talks","slug":"92ny-talks-397831","podcast_index_feed_id":397831,"rss_url":"https://92ytalks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.92ny.org/archives/featured-series/talks-podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/4/e/2/b4e250ac68df10f227a2322813b393ee/Talks_Podcast-3000x3000.jpg","author":"The 92nd Street Y, New York","episode_count":300,"summary":"The 92nd Street Y, New York has harnessed the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives, and the power of community to repair the world for 150 years. This podcast features many of the fascinating people and conversations from our stage.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/92ny-talks-397831"},"episode":{"title":"The Novels of Toni Morrison and Language as Liberation: Kevin Young, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Sasha Bonét, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers","slug":"the-novels-of-toni-morrison-and-language-as-liberation-kevin-young-reginald-dwayne-betts-sasha-bon-t-and-honor-e-fanonne-jeffers","published_at":"2026-03-13T16:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/92ny-talks-397831/the-novels-of-toni-morrison-and-language-as-liberation-kevin-young-reginald-dwayne-betts-sasha-bon-t-and-honor-e-fanonne-jeffers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/92ny-talks-397831","url":"https://92ytalks.libsyn.com/the-novels-of-toni-morrison-and-language-as-liberation-kevin-young-reginald-dwayne-betts-sasha-bont-and-honore-fanonne-jeffers","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/92ytalks/Podcast-03.13.26-toni-morrison_mixdown-full_.mp3?dest-id=210969","summary":"Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like Sula and Beloved . Her lectures on American literature and racial imagination, now available for the first time, have never been more necessary. Join The New Yorker 's poetry editor Kevin Young, novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, writer Sasha Bonét, and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for a conversation that breaks open the taboos about race in American literature — and a celebration of her new collection, Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon . Drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that built the nation to the Black characters that many of the country's canonical white writers imagined in their work, Morrison's lectures are an antidote to fear and intellectual repression at a time when discussion about race in American literature has become fraught and muted — revealing that liberation is possible through language. In a celebration of the book's launch — and the reissue of her classic oeuvre — don't miss this group of distinguished novelists, poets, and scholars as they step inside the classroom with Morrison to revel in her singular brilliance — cracking the code of America's deepest fears, longings, and hopes for collective liberation.","meta_description":"Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like Sula and Beloved . He…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4366,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/92ny-talks-397831/episodes/the-novels-of-toni-morrison-and-language-as-liberation-kevin-young-reginald-dwayne-betts-sasha-bon-t-and-honor-e-fanonne-jeffers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/92ny-talks-397831/the-novels-of-toni-morrison-and-language-as-liberation-kevin-young-reginald-dwayne-betts-sasha-bon-t-and-honor-e-fanonne-jeffers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}