Celebrate Pride Month with author Robert Jones Jr. as he discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Prophets tells of the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi plantation, the refuge they find in each other,...
Greenlight is excited to host Paul Mendez for his extraordinary debut novel, Rainbow Milk, an essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice. Nineteen-year-old Jesse is a bright and devout Jehovah’s Witness struggling under a repressive religious community to keep his queer desire a secret. As Jesse reckons with race, class, sexuality and spirituality...
Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe Presents: Ocean Vuong in conversation with Robert Jones, Jr. to discuss Vuong's brilliant novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, newly released in paperback. Thursday, June 17, 2021 5:30 p.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. EDT Tickets: $18.53 (book and ticket); $5 (ticket only) Link: https://www.bookpassage.com/oceanvuong 950|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/210617-EV-800x800-1.jpg|full
Please join popular Bookstagrammer Crystal Forte (better known as @melanatedreader), award-winning writers Honorée Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois), Kiese Laymon (Long Division), and Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets) for a summer solstice discussion about literature, their works, their Blacknesses, and their roles as artists. It's guaranteed to be a magical conversation. Monday, June 21, 2021...
Queer history has not always been told or recorded, and in some cases, it has been hidden from us entirely. Today, queer authors uncover the hidden truths from our history and bring these important stories to light. Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, Julie Cohen, author of Spirited and The Two Lives of Louis and Louise, and Jenn Shapland, author of My...
These two outstanding debut novels The Prophets by Robert Jones and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton are wildly different in plot. However, both deal with systemic racism and sexism, freedom of expression, acts of violence and redemption, class and the power that comes with this. Both authors have written a character that they themselves...
Sadeqa Johnson will be in virtual conversation with Robert Jones, Jr. about her book, Yellow Wife: A Novel at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7 p.m. EDT RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-live-sadeqa-johnson-robert-jones-jr-tickets-153356891591 964|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/210630-OG-1200x628-1.jpg|full
It’s taken too long and there’s still a great deal of queer writing to be done, but we can at least say that queer storytelling and queer narratives, which include novels such as the ones written by authors on this panel, have made light years of progress from the days of quietly closeted characters AND...
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black, presents the paperback edition of his prize-winning Begin Again, one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. In these brilliant...
Robert Jones Jr. joins the Smart Brown Girl Book Club for an author chat to discuss his novel, The Prophets, a deeply immersive love story set in the time of American slavery. Carrying the reader from the West Coast of Africa to the plantations of Mississippi, it pushes one's understanding of heteronormative social standards. Watch...
"Join us via Zoom on Sunday, September 12, 2021 from 6-8pm for the next reading by the First Person Plural Reading Series Harlem featuring Allen Gee, Robert Jones, Jr., Kevin McIlvoy, Peter Markus and Vanessa K. Valdés, hosted and curated by Stacy Parker Le Melle. Each writer is extraordinary and I am thrilled that they will join us for this reading....
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,...
