Join Robert Jones, Jr. and Kiese Laymon as they discuss Jones's debut novel, The Prophets, at a virtual event hosted by Greenlight Bookstore. 295|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/210105-OG-1200x628-1.jpg|full
Vanderbilt University's Department of African-American and Diaspora Studies & Callie House Research Center present "Black Writers Writing While Black," a panel discussion featuring writers who are thinking critically about Blackness, but more so, addressing the importance and significance of Black people’s voice, agency, and performance today and tomorrow. Panelists include: William Hart Robert Jones, Jr....
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...
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...
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...
Bookstagrammer and @allwaysblack curator Cree Myles kicks off the second annual Black Like We Never Left Read-a-Thon, a week-long virtual event celebrating Black fiction. This year’s event will highlight The Color Purple by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Alice Walker and will double as a fundraiser for We Need Diverse Books. On Saturday, February 12, at 12 p.m. (ET), Cree...
