Best Of: Actor Amanda Peet / Re-examining Toni Morrison

From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Amanda Pete. She's in the new film Fantasy Life and the series Your Friends and Neighbors. Pete is also a writer.

In a recent piece in The New Yorker, she writes about being diagnosed with breast cancer while Both of her parents were near death. I didn't really have that why me thing. Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, I'm just sort of always waiting for the other shoe to drop. So in this case it was three shoes.

Also, we'll talk about Tony Morrison with Harvard professor Namwali Serpel. She says no matter how many times she returns to Morrison's work, she finds something new. She's still haunted by the last sentence of the novel Sulla. When that sentence comes into my life, tears always spring to my eyes. And David Biancooli reviews the new Apple TV series Margot's Got Money Troubles that's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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