New Names Added To The Literary Canon

In one of the display windows of the bookstore called Book Culture, located on West 112th Street, near Broadway, in Manhattan, was this printed message situated among eleven books:

"Homer Herodotus Sophocles Plato Aristotle Demosthenes Cicero Virgil

Angelou Anzaldua Chang Hurston Morrison Revalthi Shange Silko

You've seen the new names on Butler Library [on the campus of nearby Columbia University], now check out their books!"

Among the books on display were Love: A Novel by Toni Morrison, Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko, Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, and Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou.


Note: Today is National Do Something Nice Day.