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Healing in a Weeping Place, Robert Jones Jr. Reflects on "The Prophets"
Robert Jones Jr. joins Andrew, Mary, and Ceren in The Ivory Tower Boiler Room to discuss his 2021 New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets. He provides a behind the scenes discussion of how this much talked about Black queer love story came to be. Our discussion dives deep into who Robert turns to for literary inspiration, specifically Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. He explains the musicality of his prose, and you'll be surprised with one of the major inspirations. As Robert says, his novel really "needed to sing"! There is much to ponder and…
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