. "It???s one job.??? What Morrison has managed to do with that job???and the criticism, pro and con, she has received for doing it???has made her one of the most widely written-about American authors of the past fifty years. (The latest study of her work, she told me, is a comparison of the vernacular in her novels and William Faulkner???s. ???I don???t believe it,??? I said. ???Believe it,??? she s" . . .