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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Tayari Jones, author of the novel Kin.

Kin, is Tayari’s fifth novel and her second Oprah’s book club pick after 2018’s An American marriage.

In our conversation, she explains why she’s grateful for her “slow burn career" and how she surrendered to the story that wanted to be written … even though it was not the novel she planned.

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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Donika Kelly, author of the poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things.

It’s a collection of poems paying homage to Donika’s wife, her friends, and especially her family.

In our conversation, we discuss how she uses poetry to imagine a future that doesn’t feel possible, the comfort she finds in the natural world, and why she says she’s never writing toward a book.

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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Damon Young, author and editor of That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor.

The anthology features essays and stories from 24 acclaimed Black writers whose words do work on the page but are also funny AF.

In our conversation, we discuss how humor is a vehicle to explore human vulnerabilities, the reason Damon believes Black American humor is the best humor, and the reason he’s got sex on his mind for his future projects.

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