Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience would like to invite you to All the Rage: Black Creativity in Pandemic Time. Join us and our featured speakers as we explore how Black queer writers have been able to weave pleasure and joy into not only their writing but their lives during this pandemic...
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Presents: The Black Experience Across Genres A poet (Nikki Finney) and three fiction writers (S.A. Cosby, Danielle Evans, and Robert Jones, Jr.) join UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter for a candid conversation about their literary works spanning fiction, crime fiction, short stories and poetry which all address the...
Debut Writers: Megan Nolan, Robert Jones, Jr. and Jo Lloyd. Join Alex Clark to meet some of the brightest new stars in contemporary fiction: Megan Nolan, Robert Jones, Jr., and Jo Lloyd. Thursday, April 22, 2021 10 a.m. EDT/2 p.m. GMT £6.00 - Single event ticket £35.00 – £50.00 - Festival Pass Tickets: https://bit.ly/3lumWXq 674|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210322-EV-800x800-1.jpg|full
Please join Tommy Orange and Robert Jones, Jr. for a discussion on the topic of "refuge" at the Second Annual National Antiracist Book Festival. Saturday, April 24, 2021 4 p.m. EDT Tickets: https://bit.ly/2O85Ge8 The National Antiracist Book Festival is the first and only book festival that brings together, showcases, and celebrates the nation’s leading antiracist...
Join Emerald Rutledge (she/they) and Robert Jones, Jr. as they discuss his debut novel, The Prophets, as a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Americanist Lecture Series. Monday, April 26, 2021 5 p.m. EDT RSVP: https://bit.ly/39LNLSn 729|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/210426-EV-800x1226-1.jpg|full
Join Robert Jones, Jr. for a virtual conversation with award-winning journalist and educator Steven Thrasher, and students from Northwestern University in Illinois, where he'll be doing a short reading of his debut novel, The Prophets, followed by a discussion of the text and a Q&A. Tuesday, May 4, 2021 12 p.m. EDT LINK: https://bit.ly/2Sg5xHr...
Award winning author Sadeqa Johnson (Yellow Wife) and debut novelist Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets) discuss their novels of enslaved people who must find their own way to self-determination and survival. Pheby goes from a life of relative privilege to one where she must make painful compromises to survive and to protect her children. In...
Exciting new voices are emerging from the United States and finding their way into bookshops in the UK. With publisher Quercus, we hear from some of the most exciting American authors published this spring, including Dawnie Walton, Ali Benjamin, and Robert Jones, Jr., whose debut The Prophets has been described by The Guardian as "outstanding."...
Join Robert Jones, Jr. (author of The Prophets), and James Campbell (author of Talking at the Gates), as they discuss "The Life and Legacy of James Baldwin" as part of Aye Write Festival, Glasgow's Book Festival and Scotland’s second biggest book festival, featuring the best in national, international and local writing, bringing together authors from...
Kiese Laymon, Robert Jones Jr., and Brian Broome come together as writers, readers, and literary citizens to explore Black love and performances of Black masculinity—both its manifestations in the body and mind. Laymon’s satirical first novel, Long Division (soon to be re-released), travels time to depict the journeys of two Black teenagers coming of age under the shadow of...
https://youtu.be/4nRJt3j1Ncs BRAVER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT: In Search of the New American Dream is a conversation with five major authors on what America means and can become for people long kept at its margins. With Cathy Park Hong, Robert Jones, Jr., Laila Lalami, Valeria Luiselli, and Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho). Moderated by Lisa Lucas....
Join Robert Jones, Jr. as he discusses his novel, The Prophets, with Fringe of Colour founder Jess Brough (They/Them) on the Hay Literature Fesitval's Llwyfan Cymru Digidol – Wales Digital Stage. Thursday, May 27, 2021 6 p.m. BST/1 p.m. EDT RSVP: https://bit.ly/3bjIsuj 751|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/210527-EV-800x800-1.jpg|full
