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Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison pndders why in fiction "evil has a blockbuster audience," while "goodness lurks backstage." Her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, "Goodness: Altruism and t he Literary Imagination," delivered at Harvard University in 2012, is published in this book for the first time. The book also includes a 2017 interview "Writing Goodness and Mercy." And there are 12 essays by Walter Johnson, Jacob K. Olupona, Tiya Miles, Charles H. Long, Mara Willard, David Carrasco, Matthew Potts, Stephanie Paulsell, Jonathan L. Walton, Biko Mandela Gray, Gerald "Jay" Williams, Josslyn Luckett. An introduction by the editors explores Morrison's relationship with religion. Book is in very good condition/like new. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London. 2019. Hb, Dj. USED. $25.00 Show more