Comedian Sampson McCormick hosts ItsQwere’s Mighty Real: Black Voices In Conversation on Sunday, November 7 at 12 p.m. PST / 3 p.m. EST. Ticket sales support the Oakland LGBTQ Center, a uniquely all-inclusive community center led and founded by African Americans. New York Times bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr. will be in discussion about The Prophets. Sign up to...
National Book Award Finalist Robert Jones, Jr., poet Steven Riel, and short fiction debut author Casey Hamilton appear at Perfectly Queer Readings in November! Jones will read from his Finalist in Fiction novel The Prophets, Riel from his second full-length poetry collection Edgemere, and Hamilton from interconnected stories in MenAfter10 about gay men using a...
Robert Jones Jr. Robert Jones Jr., also known as "Son of Baldwin," leads and engages in critical dialogues about the Black Lives Matter movement, racism, literature, and politics on social media. He is also the author of The Prophets, a finalist for the National Book award 2021. His debut novel centers Black queerness as bold,...
Kiese Laymon will be hosting two virtual workshops for our grad students. He has invited friends and colleagues Robert Jones Jr. (a National Book Award finalist) and Deesha Philyaw (our Grisham Writer in Residence for next year) to join him in these workshops, and each workshop will begin with a conversation between Professor Laymon and...
The 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony will be broadcast live on November 17, 2021 at 7 p.m. EST. Sign up to watch, receive updates about the upcoming ceremony, and discover this year’s Winners in real time. While the broadcast is free, we’re asking book lovers like you to support the National Book Foundation’s essential work...
https://youtu.be/0sdXMgyDzl8 Join Vulgar Geniuses and me for a live taping, discussing my debut novel The Prophets (and possibly Janet Jackson and Wonder Woman). Wednesday, December 8, 2021 8 p.m. EST Visit this link to register: https://bit.ly/3qPkC2f
Robert Jones, Jr. will be in conversation with Bookstagrammer @kellzisbookedup discussing The Prophets, which will be released in paperback on February 8, 2022! Monday, January 10, 2022 7 p.m. EST Come through: https://www.instagram.com/kellzisbookedup/
Please join Robert Jones, Jr. and author/Bookstagrammer Seanathan Q. Polidore as they discuss Jones' debut novel, The Prophets, just ahead of its paperback release. Saturday, January 22, 2022 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST Instagram Live: @seanathan_the_author_polidore
National Book Award finalist Robert Jones Jr. joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate the paperback release of his New York Times-bestselling novel, The Prophets. A stirring and lyrical debut, it tells the love story between two enslaved men, and the endurance of their relationship amid increasing tensions and violence on the plantation where they live. Jones Jr. will be...
Loyalty and Fulton Street Books are so excited to celebrate the paperback release of The Prophets with National Book Award Fiction Finalist Robert Jones, Jr. and National Book Award for Fiction winner, Jason Mott! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice...
