New Introduction to The Street by Tayari Jones
“How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but...
View ArticleAn American Marriage Celebrates 20th Foreign Edition
A sampling of some of the foreign editions of An American Marriage. … Continue reading →
View ArticleTayari Jones featured in British Vogue
June 13, 2020—”‘I believed I would never catch up’: Bestselling author Tayari Jones reveals the strange magic behind her literary stardom. The literary world is no stranger to fairy tales, but Tayari...
View ArticleSilver Sparrow Selected for NEA Big Read Grants
Each year, the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative brings communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing a book. On June 16, 2020, the Arts Endowment...
View ArticleCivitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship Award
Tayari Jones has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship. Located in a 15th century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, Civitella is a residency program for international writers,...
View ArticleAudible Releases Jones’s “Half Light”
Tayari Jones’s new short story “Half Light” became available as an audiobook only this summer. The story, narrated by Bahni Turpin, is about adult identical twins who embark on a caper of deep personal...
View ArticleManhattan School of Music Announces Inaugural Roster of Artist Scholars
Manhattan School of Music, one of the premier music schools in the United States, announced a roster of 24 Black artists ranging from instrumentalists to educators, authors, activists, composers, and...
View ArticleCornell’s 50th Anniversary Celebration of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”
Cornell University is hosting a yearlong celebration of Toni Morrison M.A.on the 50th anniversary of The Bluest Eye. Tayari Jones, A.D. White Professor at Large, will serve a panelist for a Feb. 18,...
View ArticleNew Edition of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” with New Introduction by...
The Folio Society released its beautiful new hardback edition of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, introduced by Tayari Jones and illustrated by Shabazz Larkin. “ Tayari Jones conveys why...
View ArticleRelease of “Dispossession” on Audible
From Tayari Jones, author of the New York Times best-selling An American Marriage, and performed by Gabrielle Union, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, comes “Dispossession,” an...
View Article“An American Marriage” Selected by TIME Magazine
An American Marriage appears in TIME Magazine’s “The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance.” According to TIME, “The works of this new canon are defined by their breadth and diversity—a movement...
View ArticleJones Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Tayari Jones has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of...
View ArticleTravel + Leisure: Tayari Jones Covers Atlanta’s Food Scene
“I Grew Up in Atlanta — Here’s How the Culinary Scene Changed Before My Eyes.” “The lockdowns of 2020 hit Atlanta hard, as they did the rest of the world. But in the spring of 2021, as the trees once...
View ArticleTayari Jones profiles Senator Raphael Warnock for TIME Magazine
“Senator Raphael Warnock Is Running Again for the Soul of Georgia” by Tayari Jones appeared in the June 23, 2022, issue of TIME Magazine. “While the matter at hand is the November election, larger...
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