Happy 35th Birthday, Black Book!

(the Root) Not long after the release of The Black Book, a New York Times best seller, Morrison received a letter from a prison inmate who asked for two more copies of the book. One was to give to a friend. Another was to throw against the wall “over and over and over.” The copy already in possession was to be held tightly, close to the heart. Morrison writes about this request in a new foreword for the 35th anniversary edition of The Black Book released this week by Random House. The unknown inmate, as Morrison acknowledges, encapsulated how one feels about this scrapbook of our country’s history. Continued