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
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
