Diamond and Gordon — seem always to be on the same page. “The Bluest Eye” was first produced in 2005 by the Steppenwolf for Young Adults program. Though highly acclaimed, the limited run was ...

See About archive blog posts. Young Pecola, the doomed central figure of Lydia R. Diamond’s “The Bluest Eye,” now being presented by Phantom Projects Theatre Group at the Miles Memorial ...

I was heartened to read that Palm Harbor University High School students are protesting the recent curriculum ban of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” Grappling with a wide variety of ...

Novelist Toni Morrison agrees. In her harrowing novel THE BLUEST EYE, she reveals how good kids are at soaking up and channeling an environment of pettiness and prejudice. We’re struck by the ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...