![]() ![]() My agent, publicist, and editor all called me at the same time. When the news came in, my husband and I were preparing to leave our home in Brooklyn for the amazing Provincetown Book Festival in Massachusetts. JULIANA UKIOMOGBE: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the National Book Award! Where were you when you heard the news? ![]() Below, Jones reflects on the importance of writing the truth, reads to us from his notebook, and tells us what’s on his writing playlist (Janet Jackson and Lil Nas X, to name a couple). ![]() The novel, which was recently shortlisted (as of this morning!) for the prestigious National Book Award for fiction, tells the heart wrenching story of two enslaved men-Isaiah and Samuel-who fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in the Antebellum South. on the occasion of his dazzling debut The Prophets, a haunting and beautiful historical novel about Black queer love and the dangerous repercussions of claiming and relishing in that love. ![]() In this edition, we speak to Robert Jones, Jr. From preferred writing drinks to whether or not you really need to carry a notebook, we find out all the ways they beat writer’s block and get it done. This is Rough Draft, in which our favorite writers get to the bottom of their own craft. ![]()
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