Prophets That Walk Among Us: A Conversation with Robert Jones Jr.

An interview with New York Times best-selling author, Robert Jones Jr., on representation, Black queer identity in the literary canon and battling chronic illness.

Brooklyn-based author Robert Jones Jr. began writing the novel that would become a New York Times best-seller 14 years ago while attending Brooklyn College as a student in its MFA program when a professor of fiction writing instructed him to go out into the world and find objects that a character he was thinking about bringing to life might possess. It …