READ TO ME with Becky Karush
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOn Read to Me, we practice listening — the invisible skill that fuels great work. We listen for what we love in an excerpt of exceptional writing, and then we put words to why it's so, so good.
Great writers don't just know how to write. They know how to listen for what they love.
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River House by Diana Whitney
August 24, 2023 15:52 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBToday, we read and love “River House” by Diana Whitney. This poem is from Diana's forthcoming October 2023 collection, DARK BEDS (June Road Press). Pre-order DARK BEDS here and anywhere you buy books: https://www.juneroadpress.com/bookstore Leam more about the Read to Me podcast and your host, Becky Karush: www.readtomeliteraryarts.com DARK BEDS, Diana's second collection, juxtaposes the conflicted emotions of motherhood and domesticity with the intoxicating promises of transgression...
Read to Me from... Unfollow Your Passion by Terri Trespicio
December 20, 2021 19:08 - 48 minutes - 88.7 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing — listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good Today, we read from Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create A Life That Matters to You by Terri Trespicio. We trace a smart, beaming circle from the beginning of a wedding video, back to the beginning of a wedding video. Along the way, we get a completely new understanding of beginnings, endings, and the concept of forever....
Read to Me from… The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (2019)
November 24, 2021 05:01 - 27 minutes - 63 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing — listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good Today, we revisit a 2019 episode on the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World, also called, in Mohawk, Ohénten Kariwatékwen: Words Before All Else. This Address’s legacy is much bigger than the United States Thanksgiving tradition. People of the Haudenosaunee nations recite it before ceremo...
Read to Me from... Water I Won't Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
November 12, 2021 05:01 - 35 minutes - 64.6 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, sensuous skill inside great writing — listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good. Today, we read “Transgender Heroic: All This Ridiculous Flesh” by Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from their 2021 poetry collection, WATER I WON'T TOUCH. We get to let this long poem sequence carry us on its currents. We get to feel its physical and spiritual transfiguration, and be inside its world-making love. Plus, a tin...
Read to Me from… The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
October 28, 2021 04:01 - 30 minutes - 56.2 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing: listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good. Today, we read from The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon. (And hear my son build with legos in the deep background.) We get to see how the author isolates two college-student characters (a senior from herself, a freshman from the world) with body detail, relationships to books, and physical space. But we also get to se...
Read to Me from... Beneficence by Meredith Hall
October 13, 2021 04:01 - 35 minutes - 65.1 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing — listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good. Today, we read from Beneficence by Meredith Hall. We love its stunning hat trick: conveying devastating grief and deep family love, doing so through the embodied action of its characters, and carrying everything in sentences that are light and joyful on their feet. Plus, we explore why we never need credentials to love ...
Read To Me from...The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
September 30, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 30.6 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing — listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good. Today, we read from The Book of Form and Emptiness, a stunning new novel from Ruth Ozeki. We love its radical premise, its clear-water sentences sparkling with gem-like words, and the voices of three distinct characters (not all entirely human). Plus, we explore how listening is like... magnificent fungus. Join the Re...
Read to Me from... Farm Girl by Megan Baxter
September 10, 2021 04:01 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBOn Read to Me, we practice the most fundamental skill of writing — how to listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good! Today, we read from Megan Baxter's Farm Girl. Here, a body at work, precisely described in strong sentences, becomes the site of shimmering ideas about faith and hope. We get to see Megan's specific artistry with the luscious language of vegetables, too. READ TO ME podcast is supported by READ TO ME Literary Arts. Here, you get the spa...
READ TO ME from... The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Richards by Molly Ivins [REPLAY]
August 26, 2021 04:01 - 22 minutes - 50.6 MBOn READ TO ME, we practice the most fundamental skill of writing — how to listen for what works on the page. And then understand why! In this live episode, recorded in front of a Texas audience, I read from "The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Richards" by the incomparable Molly Ivins. It's an amazing piece about regionalism and racism and sexism and the power of the woman to prevail above what's expected of her. We listen for Ivins genius — to be funny, devastating, brilliant, and casual in every s...
READ TO ME talks to... Mauricio Novoa
August 20, 2021 04:01 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBOn READ TO ME, we practice the most fundamental skill for excellent writing — how to listen for what works on the page. (And then understand why.) Today, we get to listen to the talented, generous, and so so so so smart poet MAURICIO NOVOA. His debut collection MEMORIAS FROM THE BELTWAY explores "themes of working-class survivalism and ingenuity, spiritual tenacity, hip hop articulations, and el exilio," per his co-publishers, FlowerSong Press and Red Salmon Press. In conversation, Mauric...
READ TO ME from... Memorias of the Beltway by Mauricio Novoa
August 18, 2021 04:01 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBOn READ TO ME, we practice the most fundamental skill of writing — how to listen for what works on the page. (And then understand why.) Today, I read the poem "Abuela Sestina" from Memorias from the Beltway by Mauricio Novoa. Then we get to love how perfectly the poetic form of the sestina serves this complex, country-hopping, bi-lingual, danger-filled, love-filled, bird-filled story. READ TO ME podcast is supported by READ TO ME Literary Arts. Here, you get the space, time, community, a...
READ TO ME from... Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle [REPLAY]
August 11, 2021 04:02 - 21 minutes - 50.2 MBWe read a selection from one of Mary Ruefle's beguiling essays, "TK NAME." Then we love the craft of it using the principles of Gateless Writing. If I offered you a space where you could write and read your writing within a safe community, a space where you could grow as a writer, a space where you could break through your creative blocks, would you join me? If you’re tired of working in a bubble, then you’re ready for Read To Me Gateless Writing Salons. Join at readtomepod.com.
READ TO ME from... They Could Live with Themselves by Jodi Paloni [REPLAY]
July 28, 2021 04:01 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBYour host Becky Karush got to be in a writing salon with author Jodi Paloni the other day, and man, was it dizzyingly hot-damn amazing to hear her work. In this episode, we read from Jodi's short story collection, THEY COULD LIVE WITH THEMSELVES. We see how secondary characters mirror each other to show the inner life of the main character. We learn how the short story is like both a bar band at a distance and a whale call heard above the water. Join us this summer to write your book. Or b...
READ TO ME from... Hadestown by Anais Mitchell [REPLAy}
July 21, 2021 04:01 - 11 minutes - 12.8 MBIn this episode, we read the lyrics of Wedding Song, from the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical HADESTOWN by Anais Mitchell. We get to love up the song's questions, the dares, the seduction, the reckless hope, the promises, the love. The episode was an experiment, too — the fifth-ever episode, the first with a live studio audience, the first reading lyrics. We didn't not know what we'd find on the road. (But now we know, and it was fun. No tragedies, just joy.) Join us this summer to writ...
READ TO ME from... Hadestown by Anais Mitchell [REPLAY]
July 21, 2021 04:01 - 11 minutes - 12.8 MBIn this episode, we read the lyrics of Wedding Song, from the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical HADESTOWN by Anais Mitchell. We get to love up the song's questions, the dares, the seduction, the reckless hope, the promises, the love. The episode was an experiment, too — the fifth-ever episode, the first with a live studio audience, the first reading lyrics. We didn't not know what we'd find on the road. (But now we know, and it was fun. No tragedies, just joy.) Join us this summer to write ...
READ TO ME talks to... Emily Bass
July 14, 2021 04:01 - 46 minutes - 40.4 MBToday we get to talk to my friend Emily Bass, the debut author of the extraordinary book TO END A PLAGUE: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa. This book is… An essential history of a U.S. government program. A history of the evolution of AIDS activism, and human dignity activism, in the US and in several African nations, Uganda in particular. A history of some of people in whose bodies both the virus and the drug treatment lived. A history of the potential and the limits of foreign ...
READ TO ME from... To End a Plague by Emily Bass
July 12, 2021 04:01 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBI met author Emily Bass in 1996, right around the time she was meeting AIDS activists in New York City. I met Em when we were summer camp counselors together. Neither of us knew that we’d become longtime friends. Neither of us knew that she was right at the inception of a 20-plus year journey to research, report, and write her book, her first book, her book that’s out this week, the book called TO END A PLAGUE: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa. Today, we get to celebrate Emily ...
READ TO ME talks to... Barbara Newman
June 30, 2021 16:01 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBToday we get to talk to the numinous and luminous Barbara Newman, author of the brand-new, to-be-published-on-July-27 young adult fantasy novel, THE DREAMCATCHER CODES. In this book, four girls, powered by the elements of earth, air, fire, and water, and secret messages from mystical dreamcatchers, join forces on a quest to recover a stolen piece of the coveted Crystal Horseshoe. We had a rollicking time reading from the book in our last episode — and now we get to hear from Barbara! Catc...
READ TO ME from... The Dreamcatcher Codes by Barbara Newman
June 23, 2021 16:01 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week, we enter the realm of the mystical, the brave, and the female — and learn how to write a story as epic, as timeless, as magisterial and intimate from its very first words. And not just that. In the young adult fantasy novel THE DREAMCATCHER CODES by Barbara Newman, we get to hear a story written with LIFE as its enduring value, and magic as its flair. Plus, we get a semi-spiritual reckoning at an Indigo Girls concert. Come write your stories! Join us at the READ TO ME summer wri...
READ TO ME talks to... Sari Rosenblatt
June 16, 2021 13:32 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBMeet Sari Rosenblatt, extraordinary writer, teacher, observer, candy connoisseur, conversationalist, interviewee. Author of the acclaimed short story collection FATHER GUARDS THE SHEEP, Sari here talks about the family history inside the book, the life of work that came before book publication, and the many many many revisions that go into a single story. (80! Or more!) Sari, I adore you to the moon. Thank you for this wild and beautiful talk. Join the READ TO ME Salons — writing, readin...
READ TO ME from... Father Guards the Sheep by Sari Rosenblatt
June 10, 2021 03:59 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBSari Rosenblatt is a consummate short story writer. Just look at Daughter of Retail, the lead story in her new collection, FATHER GUARDS THE SHEEP. Place — she's got it. Pacing — she's got it. High and low stakes twisting around each other — she's got it. Character voice — she's got it. Pee-your-pants-funny — she's got it. That strange floating feeling like your scalp has detached from your skull that you get at the end of an exceptional short story — she's got it. VERNA PIXLEY IN NEED O...
READ TO ME talks to...Ann Braden
June 02, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBToday we get to chat with my friend, Ann Braden — activist, founder of several grassroots organizations, podcaster, teacher, and author! I read (and cried over) an excerpt from her new book, Flight Of A Puffin, last week. Today we talk to Author Ann about bringing characters to life, loving them, and giving them hope. About raising a book up with a village to support you. About reading with kids across the country. And more! Join us for our Summer Writing Salons! www.readtomepod.com/ga...
READ TO ME from...Flight of a Puffin by Ann Braden
May 27, 2021 13:30 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBAnn Braden made a book out of heartstrings and glitter. FLIGHT OF THE PUFFIN, for middle-grade readers, is both tough and whimsical, following four young people who are hurt and alone — until one tiny, delightfully illustrated act of kindness connects them. Changes them. Changes their communities. Lifts them up. Do you know how rare that is, to make a book about moral courage and love that feels like a hummingbird? Ann Braden did, and we get to love why. And cry big, sloppy, happy heart te...
READ TO ME from...Flight of a Puffin
May 27, 2021 13:30 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBAnn Braden made a book out of heartstrings and glitter. FLIGHT OF THE PUFFIN, for middle-grade readers, is both tough and whimsical, following four young people who are hurt and alone — until one tiny, delightfully illustrated act of kindness connects them. Changes them. Changes their communities. Lifts them up. Do you know how rare that is, to make a book about moral courage and love that feels like a hummingbird? Ann Braden did, and we get to love why. And cry big, sloppy, happy heart te...
READ TO ME from... Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
May 08, 2021 04:01 - 42 minutes - 39 MBToday on READ TO ME, we love WHY SOLANGE MATTERS by Stephanie Phillips. We love the mix of history, memoir, music writing, future-dreaming, feminism, and punk. We love the love for Solange Knowles and her music. We love the celebration of Black feminism and Black feminist punk music. We love sentences that are clear runways for passionate ideas.
READ TO ME talks to... Jocelyn Mackenzie
May 03, 2021 18:30 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBToday we get to hang out with musician, fiber artist, medium, radio host, and all-around star Jocelyn Mackenzie — a creative and intuitive mind living in the body of a control freak with a love of spreadsheets! ⠀ ⠀ And if you think those two things cannot possibly exist in the same person, think again. Because she is here. She is real. And she is wonderful. Listen in and then get Jocelyn's new album, PUSH, from Righteous Babe Records.
READ TO ME from...Mango Leather by Jocelyn Mackenzie
April 28, 2021 04:01 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBToday on READ TO ME, we love a song about dental hygiene, the constrictions of modern adult life, the misappropriation of the human stress response, and the extravagant goddess-like holiness that is our true nature. And mango leather. Naturally. Come love MANGO LEATHER by Jocelyn Mackenzie, an explosively talented, generous, and blooming beautiful artist who will blow up your preconditioned mind while wearing a glittering headdress.
READ TO ME talks to...James Crews
April 19, 2021 19:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBTwo introverts walk into a bar…well, to bring this up to date in the pandemic world - two introverts connect on zoom and talk of hope, connecting with nature, and being present! A familiar name also pops up (Katherine May), proving it is a small world! A world that needs love and James Crews shows us how!
READ TO ME from...How To Love The World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
April 15, 2021 04:01 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWhat better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than to delve into an anthology of over 100 poems, on HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD, edited by poet James Crews! We love on the introduction, that reminds us poetry can be for everyone, everyday, and the wonderful poem WONDEROUS by Sarah Freligh, sets the scene for the poems to come.
READ TO ME from...How To Love The World by James Crews
April 15, 2021 04:01 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWhat better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than to delve into an anthology of over 100 poems, on HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD, edited by poet James Crews! We love on the introduction, that reminds us poetry can be for everyone, everyday, and the wonderful poem WONDEROUS by Sarah Freligh, sets the scene for the poems to come.
READ TO ME talks to...Diana Whitney
April 02, 2021 04:05 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this episode, I speak to Diana Whitney, editor of YOU DON’T NEED TO BE EVERYTHING, which we read FIVE poems from earlier this week and, my friend! We talk about night time being a sacred space, misgendered barn cats, standing up for the principles within your work and welcoming home the outsider in you. Come listen!
READ TO ME from...You don't have to be everything
March 31, 2021 04:05 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBImagine a collection of poems deftly organized around 8 emotional experiences. Imagine delving into each of those emotions and finding … you. Voices that speak to you. Lonely voices, strong voices, angry, curious. Poems that you read with your heart and body. Poems that affect you. This is YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, edited by Diana Whitney.
READ TO ME from...You Don't Have to Be Everything by Diana Whitney
March 31, 2021 04:05 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBImagine a collection of poems deftly organized around 8 emotional experiences. Imagine delving into each of those emotions and finding … you. Voices that speak to you. Lonely voices, strong voices, angry, curious. Poems that you read with your heart and body. Poems that affect you. This is YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, edited by Diana Whitney.
READ TO ME Spree Week...with Jen Goldman
March 26, 2021 04:05 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBSOPHIA by Jen Goldman is a sensuous journey in to a world of where there are beautiful sounds like ‘gaggle of grandmother’s giggle…silicone sillies…the laughter is baked into the linguine’. And the indulgent, luxury of leather handbags, inky black fountain pens with gold edges and crisp, white notecards. Oh and the FOOD! Well…you’ll want to eat a big bowl of pasta while listening to this!
READ TO ME Spree Week...with Abigail Braitwaite
March 25, 2021 04:05 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBCONTAINED by Abigail Braithwaite, is a slimline book of writing and illustrations, about 4” high by 11” wide, and representing the shape of the contained it was conceived in. The retro-fitted shipping container the is Abigail’s writing studio. How…cool!
READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Mary Lou Bagley
March 24, 2021 04:05 - 16 minutes - 15 MBIn OTHER WISE by Mary-Lou Bagley we see the complicated, strained relationship between Emily Donne and her emotionally manipulative mother, not just through the words but through the movement of these two bodies. Their physicality brings their relationship into action, as awkward and painful as it is.
READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Patricia Smith
March 23, 2021 04:05 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBSPREE WEEK DAY 2, we dive straight in at Chapter 1 of THE YEAR OF NEEDY GIRLS by Patricia Smith. Here, the stakes of the entire novel are set with a sure hand, in just three pages. Here we meet Deidre, one half of the main couple of Deidre and Sara Jane. Deirdre is a teacher in a town that’s just been cleaved through the heart — even though no one quite knows it yet.
READ TO ME SPREE WEEK... with Karen Coulters
March 22, 2021 04:05 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBIt's SPREE WEEK — a new author every day for a week! We kick it off with HOPE FROM DAFFODILS by Karen Coulters. It's our first ever romance writing on READ TO ME. Come hear Sophie and Brady meet-cute. True love can't be kept down!
READ TO ME talks to...Jo Ann Beard
March 14, 2021 20:43 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this episode, I spoke to Jo Ann Beard. JO ANN BEARD! We talked about book covers becoming the faces of old friends. About the thin line between panic and inspiration, anxiety and excitement. About the perfect friend, the one who can listen, really listen, and love on your work. Come listen and see why after the interview I called all my writing pals to revel in how much fun it was.
READ TO ME from...Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
March 11, 2021 05:01 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBWhat do you do when you have been uncreated, when you have sunk into a place where the body is a prisoner and the mind, even in sleep, is wild with seeing. What do you do when you’ve moved through that sort of pain? Spoiler alert! This excerpt we read from FESTIVAL DAYS the author JO ANNE BEARD, does not give us the answer. And neither do I. That's for your to mull over, sit with, experience and maybe come up with an answer. And then again, maybe not. Either is ok. Come listen and mu...
READ TO ME talks to...Samantha Kolber
March 02, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this episode we talk to Samantha Kolber, poet and author of 'Birth of a Daughter'. We featured the title poem last week, be sure to listen and meet me back here! We talk about how darkness can make you happy. We talk about how to tame 'the beast'! We talk about how a four year old becomes the youngest ever cover artist. Enjoy!
READ TO ME from...Birth of a Daughter by Samantha Kolber
February 26, 2021 05:01 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBIn birth, who is born? The child? The mother? The space between the two? Or the poem she will write? In Samantha Kolber’s poem BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER, the answer is yes. In today’s episode, we see how a string of couplets, a constellation of near rhymes, and three gloriously smart questions make birth bigger and tougher, more connected and more free, born and reborn. Plus, a melancholy communion with the land!
READ TO ME talks to.... Aliza Eliazarov
February 12, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBMeet Aliza Eliazarov, author and creator of ON THE FARM: Heritage and Heralded Animal Breeds in Portraits and Stories. (We featured the book last week.) You’ll hear how Aliza came to photograph animals, what it’s like to set up a portrait studio in a barn, what it feels like to connect with an animal just before the shutter clicks. it’s a huge honor to learn from a photographer. My favorite thing is to talk to artists in other disciplines to learn how they do their magic. (And maybe that h...
READ TO ME from... On the Farm by Aliza Eliazarov
February 10, 2021 05:01 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBPhotography and podcasts? Not natural dance partners. But ON THE FARM by Aliza Eliazarov makes heritage and heralded farm animals into movie stars…into the muses for Dutch masters…into demigods carved into stone temples So, today, we’re taking a leap. A leap like a goat to the top of a barn. Today, we’re loving a photograph. Specifically, we are going to listen to a photograph — and in doing so, fall in love with an angora goat named Chamomile.
READ TO ME talks to... Katina Makris
January 29, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBToday we get to talk to the exuberantly powerful writer and healer Katina Makris, author of LOVING YOURSELF ENOUGH TO THRIVE.
READ TO ME from... Interview with Katina Makris [Mini Episode]
January 29, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBOn today’s author interview we get to talk to the the exuberantly powerful writer and healer Katina Makris, author of LOVING YOURSELF ENOUGH TO THRIVE. Visit today's blog post for more: https://www.readtomepod.com/season2episodes/mini-katina-makris
READ TO ME from... Katina Makris (How to Thrive)
January 27, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBHow does a self-help book make the reader the sovereign star of the show? Just listen to LOVING YOURSELF ENOUGH TO THRIVE by Katina Makris. A Gateless-trained writer, a healer with decades of experience, a storyteller of flair, Katina empowers us with style, power, and the authority of love. Enjoy, learn how to do this craft yourself — and find your power, pure Katina-style. Visit today's blog post here: https://www.readtomepod.com/season2episodes/katina-makris
READ TO ME from... Loving Yourself Enough to Thrive by Katina Makris
January 27, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBHow does a self-help book make the reader the sovereign star of the show? Just listen to LOVING YOURSELF ENOUGH TO THRIVE by Katina Makris. A Gateless-trained writer, a healer with decades of experience, a storyteller of flair, Katina empowers us with style, power, and the authority of love. Enjoy, learn how to do this craft yourself — and find your power, pure Katina-style. Visit today's blog post here: https://www.readtomepod.com/season2episodes/katina-makris
READ TO ME talks to... Robert Jones, Jr.
January 23, 2021 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBToday we get to talk to Robert Jones, Jr, author of the novel THE PROPHETS, an instant NYT bestseller, received with immense critical praise and devoted readers. I loved talking with Mr. Jones. Imagine him with a portrait of James Baldwin over one shoulder, a portrait of Toni Morrison over the other, between them beautiful writer and person in a fine, fine suit and bowtie. Here is Robert Jones, Jr, and lucky, lucky me.
READ TO ME from... Interview with Robert Jones, Jr. [Mini Episode]
January 23, 2021 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBOn today’s mini episode we get to talk to Robert Jones, Jr, author of the novel THE PROPHETS, an instant NYT bestseller, received with immense critical praise and devoted readers. I loved talking with Mr. Jones. Imagine him with a portrait of James Baldwin over one shoulder, a portrait of Toni Morrison over the other, between them beautiful writer and person in a fine, fine suit and bowtie. Here is Robert Jones, Jr, and lucky, lucky me. Visit today's blog post here: https://www.readtomepo...