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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.

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Donney Rose
Mar 05, 2021
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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 …

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