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In Conversation with Paul Mendez at Greenlight Bookstore

Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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...

In Conversation with Ocean Vuong at Book Passage

Book Passage Corte Madera, CA, United States

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

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Summer Solstice Conversation with Bookstagrammer Crystal Forte (@melanatedreader), Honorée Jeffers, and Kiese Laymon

Bookstagram AL, United States

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...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: HACHETTE PRIDE/Pride in Writing 2021: LGBTQ+ History

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...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Felixstowe Book Festival with Dawnie Walton

Felixstowe Book Festival Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

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...

In Conversation with Sadeqa Johnson at the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Enoch Pratt Free Library Baltimore, MD, United States

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

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: 1455 Summer Literary Arts Festival

1455 Summer Literary Arts Festival

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. Presents Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Author Chat with Smart Brown Girls Book Club

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...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: First Person Plural Reading Series

"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....

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,...