The Paris Review

S2E1 | Before the Light (with Toni Morrison, Molly Ringwald, Mary Terrier, Alex Dimitrov)

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Episode notes

Legendary novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison explains why beauty is absolutely necessary in an interview from the magazine’s archives; Molly Ringwald channels adolescent grief in her reading of “Guests,” a story by Mary Terrier; and poet Alex Dimitrov reads his poem “Impermanence.”