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THE PROPHETS BOOK TOUR: The Provincetown Book Festival

Provincetown Public Library 356 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA, United States

Join Robert Jones, Jr. for his first in-person book tour appearance, at the 2021 Provincetown Book Festival. He will be in conversation with Aaron Lecklider (Love’s Next Meeting) to discuss his debut novel, The Prophets. Saturday, September 18, 2021 4:30 p.m. EDT RSVP: https://bit.ly/3n3M5v6 PLEASE NOTE: For the safety of speakers, volunteers, audience, and staff,...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: National Book Festival

Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half (Riverhead), and Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets (Putnam’s), discuss their new books with Lauren Christensen, senior staff editor for The New York Times Book Review. Wednesday, September 22, 2021 5 p.m. EDT RSVP: https://bit.ly/3nG5Kl1   1485|https://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/210922_EV_800x450.jpg|full

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Southern Festival of Books

With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight...

THE PROPHETS BOOK TOUR: Haystack Book Talks Festival

The Norfolk Library 9 Greenwoods Rd E, Norfolk Historic District, CT, United States

Haystack Book Festival: The Brendan Gill Lecture with Robert Jones, Jr. Robert Jones, Jr. bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novel The Prophets will deliver “The Brendan Gill Lecture” at the Norfolk Library on the opening night of the Haystack Book Festival. To accommodate varying audiences, there are three ways to attend this event: 1....

THE PROPHETS BOOK TOUR: Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival Presents: Affairs of the Heart Desire, power, violence, and forbidden love drive the turmoil within new books by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi (Savage Tongues), heralded debut author Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets), and Edward Lewis Wallant Award winner Joshua Henkin (Morningside Heights). These three novelists come together...

THE PROPHETS BOOK TOUR: Schomburg Courtyard Salon

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, United States

Join us for an intimate salon with author Robert Jones, Jr. reading from his debut novel The Prophets. The Schomburg Courtyard Salon series is an outdoor event featuring authors whose books were published during quarantine. The author will be available to sign books throughout the evening. Recently listed as a finalist for the 2021 National Book...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Cheltenham Literature Festival/Celebrating James Baldwin

A voice of the American civil rights movement; a central figure in Black gay literary history; a self-confessed maverick – James Baldwin was one of the towering figures of 20th century American literature. In a night of live jazz and conversation, our expert panel transport you to Baldwin’s America to explore his extraordinary legacy and...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK FESTIVAL: Whistler Writers Festival

Join moderator Alix Ohlin in an insightful, wide-ranging conversation that delves into nuanced fictional stories and non-fiction subject matter, involving: a magical being who struggles against his nature; a forbidden union between two enslaved men; stories of characters negotiating distance; a meditation on the socio-political and economic forces that created African-Nova Scotia; and a view...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: THRIVE: Centering the Black Queer Experience in Storytelling

Chaired by PRIM Director K Bailey, the panel will feature Robert Jones Jnr, author of The Prophets (Quercus), and Okechuckwu Nzelu, author of forthcoming Here Again Now and The Private Lives of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books), who will discuss depictions of Black queer love in their novels and storytelling. The panel will also be accompanied...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: ItsQwere’s Mighty Real

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...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Perfectly Queer Readings

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...