Features
“The Evidence of Things Unseen: Baldwin, Faith, and Fiction,” The Center for Fiction, November 19, 2024.
Arte da Censura, Folha de S.Paulo, November 17, 2024.
“Proibições de livros nos EUA mostram censura velada e refletem eleição de Trump,” Folha de S. Paulo, November 16, 2024.
“Ocupação Oswald de Andrade, ‘Os Profetas,’ de Robert Jones Jr + Curumin com novo disco,” Metrópolis, November 5, 2024.
“Robert Jones Jr. e Evandro Cruz Silva falam sobre diferentes formas de ser,” Jornal de Brasília, October 11, 2024.
“Robert Jones Jr. e Evandro Cruz Silva falam sobre diferentes formas de ser,” Folha de S. Paulo, October 11, 2024.
“Flip 2024: Robert Jones Jr e Evandro Cruz Silva falam sobre memórias coletivas sob influência de James Baldwin e Toni Morrison,” O Globo, October 10, 2024.
“100 Years of James Baldwin,” The New York Times, August 8, 2024.
“Celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th birthday,” 1A, WAMU, NPR, July 30, 2024.
“Baldwin Is My Spiritual Godfather” The Baldwin 100 Podcast, July 16, 2024.
Bed-Stuy Tea: Robert Jones, Jr., BKLYN Community Audio, December 28, 2023.
“Quatro Cinco Um: a revista dos livros – Conheça o autor afro-americano considerado o novo James Baldwin” (“Four Five One: the magazine of books – Meet the African-American author considered the new James Baldwin”), November 1, 2023.
“Quatro Cinco Um: a revista dos livros – Robert Jones Jr. e a busca pelo amor queer em meio ao horror da escravidão” (“Four Five One: the magazine of books – Robert Jones Jr. and the search for queer love amid the horror of slavery”), Quatro Cinco Um: a revista dos livros, November 1, 2023.
“Por que relações gays de séculos atrás alimentam a literatura escrita até hoje” (“Why gay relationships from centuries ago fuel the literature written today,”) Estado de Minas, October 20, 2023.
“Recommit to Action All Year Long With This Essential Pride Reading List,” Elle, August 18, 2023.
“New York Times Bestselling Author of The Prophets: Author Talk with Robert Jones, Jr.,” Library Speakers Consortium, August 16, 2023.
“The Prophets, a book about Queer Black love among slaves on Author Talk w/ Robert Jones, Jr.,” He Said, He Said, He Said, July 28, 2023.
“Literary festival celebrates Juneteenth,” NY1, June 19, 2023.
“When They Go Low…,” Woke AF Daily with Danielle Moodie, June 19, 2023.
Jafari Allen, Robert Jones, Jr., and Samiya Bashir | Schomburg Center Literary Festival, June 17, 2023.
Danté Stewart and Robert Jones, Jr. | Schomburg Center Literary Festival, June 17, 2023.
“Christopher Rice Recommends 9 LGBTQ Historical Fiction Titles,” BookTrib., June 8, 2023.
“It started with a question: Robert Jones Jr. explores Queer Black history in debut historical novel,” Seattle Gay News, April 7, 2023.
“Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers,” The New York Times, March 4, 2023.
Jamila Minnicks on Moonrise Over New Jessup with Robert Jones, Jr., The Center for Fiction, February 16, 2023.
“New Year New Books 2023: Celebrating and Defending the Written Word,” PEN America, January 24, 2023.
“Interview with Robert Jones, Jr. Part I and Part II,” The Chills at Will, December 6, 2022.
“Between Starshine and Clay: Narratives of Black Bodily Autonomy,” Facing Race, November 19, 2022.
Miami Book Fair: Robert Jones Jr. on THE PROPHETS (with William Johnson), November 17, 2022.
“October Is Black History Month. These 11 Black Authors Should Feature On Your Bookshelf,” HuffPostUK, October 13, 2022.
“20 incredible books by Black and LGBTQ+ authors you need to read this Black History Month – and beyond,” PinkNews, October 13, 2022.
Read Banned Books: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, September 22, 2022.
Writing While Black with Maiysha Kai, The Grio, August 28, 2022.
“Legacies of Slavery and Queerness with Son of Baldwin,” KPFA 94.1 FM, Upfront, July 12, 2022.
“Billboards with Quotes from LGBT Books Placed in Book-Banning States,” Book Riot, July 11, 2022.
“Son of Baldwin — a place for discussions of race, sexuality and gender — retires,” NPR, All Things Considered, July 3, 2022.
“Interview with Author Robert Jones, Jr.,” This Is How It Starts Podcast, July 2, 2022.
“Pride Month Author Interview: Robert Jones, Jr.,” Penguin Random House, June 30, 2022.
“Robert Jones Jr. on Black Love, Community, and Resistance in The Prophets,” The Brooklyn Review, June 27, 2022.
“Living and Writing Through AIDS,” New York Public Library, June 23, 2022.
“Special Juneteenth Panel Event | Conversations with Authors,” Book Passage, June 19, 2022.
“A Conversation on Fatherhood and Freedom with Robert Jones, Danté Stewart, Frederick Joseph, and Joél Leon,” Built By Creatives, June 19, 2022.
“Reflections on Black Manhood, Masculinity, and Patriarchy on the Occasion of Juneteenth and Father’s Day,” Upworthy, June 18, 2022.
“20 books that are essential reading this Pride Month and beyond,” CNN, June 8, 2022.
Fine Print Book Club | The Prophets with author Robert Jones Jr., June 8, 2022.
“Icebergs Ahead,” WOKE AF Daily, June 3, 2022.
“Stuck Between Hating and Loving My Body,” Stuck with Damon Young, May 31, 2022.
“Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets Wins the 2022 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction,” Publishing Triangle, May 11, 2022.
“10 Fantastic Novels Now in Paperback,” AARP, April 28, 2022.
“AFROPUNK X All Ways Black Presents: World Book Day With Robert Jones Jr.” AFROPUNK, April 23, 2022.
“PEN Out Loud: Robert Jones, Jr with Mateo Askaripour,” PEN America, April 22, 2022.
“The Prophets Reading Group Discussion with Dr. Rosamond S. King,” Brooklyn College, April 1, 2022.
“The Interview with Robert Jones, Jr.,” Sitting in Silence, March 8, 2022.
“The Prophets Reading Group Discussion with David Wells and Robert Jones Jr.” Brooklyn College, March 4, 2022.
“2022 BHM: Beloved Taught Me Gallery + Book Drive,” Elizabeth’s of Akron, February 12, 2022.
“Robert Jones, Jr. Reads ‘New Covenant’ from The Prophets,” February, 12, 2022.
“Robert Jones, Jr. – The Prophets,” Busy Being Black, February 12, 2022.
“Black Authors on Their Favorite Books by Black Authors,” Penguin Random House, February 2, 2022.
“The Prophets Reading Group Discussion with Crystal Schloss-Allen and Robert Jones Jr,” Brooklyn College, February 2, 2022.
“Best-Selling Debut Novels Are the Bald Eagles of the Book World,” The New York Times, December 23, 2021.
The Vulgar Geniuses Podcast, December 17, 2021.
“The Year in Books: We Celebrated Black Excellence,” Penguin Random House, December 2, 2021.
“A Year in Reading: Robert Jones, Jr.,” The Millions, December 2, 2021.
“The Vigorous Vulnerability of Robert Jones, Jr.’s Debut Novel The Prophets,” Interview Magazine, October 5, 2021.
“National Book Awards 2021: Robert Jones Jr and Lauren Groff among finalists,” The Guardian, October 5, 2021.
“National Book Award nominees announced: Lauren Groff’s ‘Matrix,’ Robert Jones Jr. make the cut,” USA Today, September 16, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ unveils Black queer ancestors,” Bay Area Reporter, August 19, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ Unveils Black Queer Ancestors,” Out in the Bay podcast, August 17, 2021.
“Rebelling in Black with Robert Jones, Jr.,” Black & Published, June 29, 2021.
“James Baldwin and Robert Jones, Jr.,” Dead Writer Drama, American Writers Museum, June 24, 2021.
“An Enduring Love: In Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.,” Book it!, June 23, 2021.
“‘Putting myself in those blood-soaked shoes was the most difficult thing to contend with’—Robert Jones Jr talks to Efemia Chela about his debut novel, The Prophets,” Johannesburg Review of Books, June 18, 2021.
Book It Book Club: The Prophets, June 9, 2021.
Pride Month: Robert Jones, Jr.’s recommended reads, Amazon, June 7, 2021.
North Country Bookmarks: Writing the Story You Want to Read, NCPR, June 4, 2021.
115 LGBTQ Authors Share the Books That Changed Their Lives, Oprah Daily, June 3, 2021.
PRIME with Charles Blow, BNC News, May 17, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr. Reclaims the Black Queer Right To Be, Keeps James Baldwin’s Legacy Alive,” Into, May 17, 2021.
“‘You Can’t Be Pro-Black and Anti-LGBTQIA+’: The Root Presents It’s Lit! Talks The Prophets With Robert Jones Jr.,” The Root, April 23, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr.: ‘The Prophets,'” KCRW/Bookworm, March 25, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ Raises Love Above All Else,” Audible, March 18, 2021.
“A Searching Story of Love, Blood and Legacy,” CUNY Podcasts, March 9, 2021.
“VIDEO: TNS Interview with Robert Jones Jr. (Son of Baldwin), Author of ‘The Prophets,'” The North Star, March 8, 2021.
“The Reading Life: Robert Jones, Jr.,” WWNO, March 5, 2021.
“Ep 40 | A conversation with bestselling author of The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.,” Indeed, March 4, 2021.
The Prophets, WABE, March 3, 2021.
“Writers as Revolutionaries: Power of Protest,” Logo, February 26, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr.’s Playlist for His Novel The Prophets,” Largehearted Boy, February 26, 2021.
“‘What Black Art Do You Return To?’ Celebrating Black Art,” Entertainment Weekly, February 25, 2021.
“Jordan Fisher, Angie Thomas, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and more share what they want to see in Black art,” Entertainment Weekly, February 24, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr. Reads from His Debut Novel, The Prophets,” LitHub, February 23, 2021.
“The Prophets Unveils Black Queer Ancestors,” Out in the Bay (KALW Public Radio), February 23, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr. – The Prophets,” Chatter on Books podcast, February 23, 2021.
“Five Queer Works by Five Queer Authors – as recommended by Robert Jones Jr, author of The Prophets,” Hillingdon Libraries Blog, February 21, 2021.
“The Book Show #1700 – Robert Jones Jr.,” WAMC, February 16, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr., Michael Brissenden and the world of royal fiction,” The Book Show with Claire Nichols, February 8, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel reclaims Black history by infusing queer love into a slavery narrative,” NBC BLK, February 3, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr., and Justine Cowan,” WGCU/NPR, February 3, 2021.
“Episode 464: Robert Jones, Jr., Author of The Prophets”, Writer’s Bone, February, 2, 2021.
“The Writers: The Prophets by Robert Jones Jnr,” ABC Nightlife, January 22, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ imagines what’s missing from Black queer history,” NBC News, January 21, 2021.
“A fan of Wonder Woman and librarians,” The Boston Globe, January 20, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ author: Black, queer not ‘incompatible’,” The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, January 17, 2021.
“Book Club: The Prophets,” Mississippi Edition, January 14, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets Is a Refreshing New Take on the Great American Novel,” POPSUGAR., January 12, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets Pays Homage To Literary Greats James Baldwin And Toni Morrison,” WABE, January 12, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr. – Author of The Prophets and creator of Son of Baldwin,” Professional Book Nerds, January 11, 2021.
“‘The Prophets’ examines love between two enslaved Black men in antebellum South,” The Grio, January 8, 2021.
“Robert Jones Jr. on his debut novel, ‘The Prophets,’ a love story between two enslaved men,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 8, 2021.
“Inside Chat: Breaking Chairs with Robert Jones, Jr.,” The Inside Flap, January 8, 2021.
“THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT JONES JR.,” Pen America, January 7, 2021.
“Author Robert Jones Jr. Shows Readers Black Queer Love Has Always Existed,” Shondaland, January 7, 2021.
“16 January reads for the new year,” Good Morning America, January 7, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr.’s ‘The Prophets’ is a Stunning Debut of Queer Black Love,” Observer, January 6, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr.: Writing to Answer the Question, “What About Love?” Writer’s Digest, January 6, 2021.
“DAMIAN BARR’S LITERARY SALON EXCLUSIVE: Robert Jones, Jr reads from The Prophets,” January 6, 2021.
“5 books not to miss: Feminist Western ‘Outlawed,’ Robert Jones Jr.’s ‘The Prophets,'” USA Today, January 4, 2021.
“January 2021 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations,” Book Riot, January 4, 2021.
“Excerpt: The Prophets,” Literary Hub, January 2, 2021.
“Robert Jones, Jr. Is Son of Baldwin and More,” The New York Times, December 30, 2020.
“New Southern books we’re eager to read in 2021,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 28, 2020.
“The best books to keep you warm this January,” Entertainment Weekly, December 21, 2020.
“Winter reading guide: 20 books from Joan Didion, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cicely Tyson, more,” USA Today, December 18, 2020.
“Robert Jones, Jr.’s Top Five Favorite Audiobooks,” Libro.fm, December 2020.
“Books that Inspire the Writing of Robert Jones Jr.,” Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, December 17, 2020.
“A Q&A With Robert Jones Jr., Author of January’s Indie Next List Pick,” BTW, December 16, 2020.
“19 New Historical Fiction Books We Think You’re Going To Love,” Buzzfeed, December 16, 2020.
“Grand Entrance,” Vanity Fair, December 2020.
“The Best Travel Books of All Time, According to Authors,” Conde Nast Traveler, November 10, 2020.
“Fall Preview: Debut Novels Worth Celebrating,” Kirkus, August 25, 2020.
“50 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall,” Kirkus, August 18, 2020.
“Publishing Braces for a Full Fall: 42 Titles for the Coming Season,” Library Journal, August 18, 2020.
“Six of the year’s buzziest authors discuss bringing their books into the world during cultural upheaval,” Entertainment Weekly, July 28, 2020.
“Writers to Watch Fall 2020,” Publishers Weekly, July 10, 2020.
“BookExpo Proves You Can Have a Trade Show in a Pandemic, Virtually,” The New York Times, June 5, 2020.
“BookExpo 2020 Adults Books Buzz Panel Picks,” Publishers Weekly, May 30, 2020.
“Meet the Author: Robert Jones, Jr., Author of The Prophets,” Penguin Random House Library, May 27, 2020.
“BookExpo 2020 The Stories Behind Six Buzz Books,” Publishers Weekly, May 26, 2020.
“Exclusive: BookExpo Announces the Buzziest Books Coming this Year,” Entertainment Weekly, February 24, 2020.
“15 Books to Read by Black Female American Writers,” The New York Times, November 30, 2018.
“Black Male Writers for Our Time,” The New York Times, November 30, 2018.
“Dear President: ‘For Black Men Like My Grandfather, Being Gay Equaled Failure at Manhood,’” The Brian Lehrer Show, November 14, 2016.
“Why Can’t We Stop Watching ‘Empire’?”, The New York Times, March 18, 2015.