Not So Minor Black Figures — Brandon Taylor

I sat down with award-winning author Brandon Taylor live at Brixton House Theatre to mark the UK launch of his latest novel, Minor Black Figures . Our conversation explores what happens when Black artists resist the demands of the always-on attention economy to instead embrace the archives, tend to our cultural inheritances and allow ourselves—and the characters in our art—the messy complexities we are so often encouraged to hide. 06:20 How's your heart? 18:00 Real Life in a Black Square Summer 36:00 Minor Black Figures in Interminable Pandemics 43:00 It's okay to be an uppity negro Get your copy of Minor Black Figures from your local bookshop .

This episode includes the voices of: Lorraine Hansberry and Pamela Sneed . If the interiority & craft of authors, writers & artists stir your imagination to whirling, come to Mannington Book Bash .

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