Author & Leader Interviews

Nafissa Thompson-Spires Discusses Heads of the Colored People

Tayari Jones Discusses An American Marriage

Jesmyn Ward Discusses Sing, Unburied, Sing

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Discusses A Kind of Freedom

Stephanie Powell Watts Discusses No One Is Coming to Save Us

Angie Thomas Discusses The Hate U Give

Mychal Denzel Smith On Social Transformation Through Personal Awakening

Necessary and audacious, Mychal Denzel Smith’s assured debut, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, fuses

In Conversation with Zadie Smith

Patricia Bell-Scott Discusses The Firebrand and the First Lady

In The Firebrand and the First Lady, scholar Patricia Bell-Scott illuminates the unlikely friendship between two historic

Brit Bennett Discusses The Mothers

26-year-old Brit Bennett’s sparkling debut novel, The Mothers, came of age over eight years and several drafts. She began