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I'm a deeply dorky person, but I scored cool points with a student when I recommended "My Heart is a Chainsaw" by Stephen Graham Jones and "The Ballad of Black Tom" by Victor LaValle after we chatted about "Kindred" by Octavia Butler.

Get your copy of LESSON FOR SURVIVAL. Click through to Jenn’s post to enter!

Happiest of book birthdays to SarahVLangan and her brilliant A BETTER WOLRD. One of the best books of this or any other year.

WASHINGTON DC! Emily Raboteau will be at Politics and Prose on Wednesday at 7PM, discussing her new book, LESSON FOR SURVIVAL with the great Dolen Perkins-Valdez. It’s going to be a smart, insightful and warm conversation about hard things we need to discuss. Come out!!

Spent 8 hours in the NYC offices of AMC today meeting with a lot of talented people about hiring for roles. We are really making Devil in Silver into a tv show! Early stages but it is happening.

Tonight in Washington DC! 7PM at Politics and Prose.

Location scouting for Devil in Silver. Found this somewhere in a field. Felt like a good omen.

can't wait until we can announce who the musician is who's here for this:

One of the greats.

Join me tomorrow night on Black Authors Matter!

My review of SarahVLangan’s A Better World, from Atria Books, is now up at NPR. npr.org/2024/04/16/124…

Aye! A big, well deserved round of applause for Tananarive Due - WE'RE NOT GOING BACK as she wins the LA Times Book Prize. Congratulations! Read THE REFORMATORY today.

Happy Earth Day! Here are some recommended books, including Lessons for Survival. barnesandnoble.com/blog/earth-day…

Here's a link to my full acceptance speech at the LA Times Festival of Books Book Prizes ceremony. We must honor the courage of young people like Robert and Gloria Stephens in The Reformatory who have driven change throughout history. youtu.be/j0lG7kZk2ns?si…

A big and awesome thing! The folks at The Week let me pick the books for this week's column. theweek.com/culture-life/b… Stephen King Gillian Flynn Victor LaValle Emil Ferris

"A BETTER WORLD [by SarahVLangan] is a dark and eerie story. With few exceptions, the characters are a disturbing lot."—FreshFiction 🔗freshfiction.com/review.php?id=… 📸Jenn's Bookshelves

Unconscionable.

Dan Stevens is set to star in "The Terror" Season 3 at AMC, which is based on the Victor LaValle novel "The Devil in Silver." Stevens will also executive produce the six-episode season. It's slated to debut on AMC and AMC+ in 2025. wp.me/pc8uak-1lErM4