Robert Jones, Jr. will be signing free copies of his debut novel, The Prophets, in the Penguin Random House booth at the 2022 Afropunk Music Festival. The festival itself, a celebration of Black art, boasts such musical acts as The Roots, Burna Boy, Isaiah Rashad, Lucky Daye, Freddie Gibbs, Earl Sweatshirt, Tierra Whack, Adekunle Gold,...
Few books have inspired, moved, and changed readers more than Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Few books have also been more challenged by those who would seek to censor and ban works of art. To honor its creator—a Library Lion and Lifetime Trustee—an all-star lineup of writers, actors, and thinkers will return to Morrison’s indelible work with readings,...
Brooklyn’s own Mahogany L. Browne, a prolific writer and avid advocate for public art, is Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence. Browne has written works of fiction, stage plays and critical essays, edited six anthologies, and authored another half-dozen poetry collections. For her Seen, Sound, Scribe series, Browne curates thought-provoking and often politically driven evenings of spoken word,...
Please join us for our next READ 718 Reads! with New York Times bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr. to discuss his novel, The Prophets. The event will take place in Park Slope. Location details will be sent to your email upon ticket purchase. All guests must be vaccinated against Covid-19. We encourage you to test on the day of the...
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) will applaud the tremendous body of work from 2022 NAIBA Legacy Award recipient, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Robert Jones, Jr., will receive the Book of the Year-Fiction award for his debut novel, The Prophets. The day will begin with two different events for our booksellers. Owners will have a private...
Back and better than ever! Debuts and Redos (D&R) is coming to P&T Knitwear Books and Podcasts, featuring Vanessa A. Bee, Robert Jones Jr., and Rachel Mannheimer! Hosted by the incomparable Evie Atkinson, D&R will showcase new debut authors and re-debuting (is that a word?) writers who published their first book during 2020. Books will...
The Black Readers Conference exists to empower and convene a community of Black Readers (book clubs, bloggers, podcasters, BookTubers, and Bookstagrammers, etc.) through various avenues of literature, social events and community service. This year's day 1 keynote speaker is Robert Jones, Jr., author of The New York Times Bestselling novel, The Prophets. He will be...
Robert Jones Jr. on The Prophets: A Novel: Fiction Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets – his debut novel – tells the story of Samuel and Isaiah, slaves whose love creates a refuge in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man, a fellow slave, seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s...
Between Starshine and Clay: Narratives of Black Bodily Autonomy One can describe the novels of Robert Jones, Jr. and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa as historical fiction, set in 19th-century plantations in Mississippi and Puerto Rico respectively. Jones Jr.’s 2021 award winning novel, The Prophets, centers on two male lovers, Isaiah and Samuel, carving out space for their own...
Ring in the new year among fellow PEN America Members and supporters at our annual New Year New Books Party in New York City! As we welcome 2023, let us also gather in celebration and defense of the written word. The past year has seen alarming drives in legislatures, school districts, and communities nationwide to ban books...
The Center for Fiction welcomes Jamila Minnicks for a rich conversation on her acclaimed debut novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup, winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. In this enchanting novel, Alice arrives in New Jessup, a thriving, self-sufficient Black community where people are skeptical of those lobbying for integration. There, she falls in...
Save the date for the return of the Writers at Rutgers series. Writers at Rutgers is an exchange between well-known writers of diverse backgrounds and the Rutgers students and faculty. Robert Jones, Jr., is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut...
