Late Night Lit: Robert Jones, Jr. | Jeff Conyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Late Night Lit, Late Night supervising producer Sarah Jenks-Daly speaks with Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets.
She also speaks with Jeff Conyers, president of the Dollywood Foundation.
Then, a few children of the Late Night with Seth Meyers staff share book recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Seth Meyers here. Welcome to the first 2021 episode of Late Night Lit. |
| 0:06.7 | Our podcast series is celebrating books and authors we love. I'm going to turn things |
| 0:10.7 | over to Sarah Jank's daily, a supervising producer, Late Night and the host of Late Night Lit. |
| 0:15.7 | Take it away, Sarah. |
| 0:16.7 | Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Jank's daily and welcome to Late Night Lit. This month, the first month |
| 0:23.4 | of 2021, we were fortunate to speak with Newly Minted, New York Times bestselling novelist |
| 0:28.3 | Robert Jones Jr., the author of the Radiant New Book, The Profits, which is a beautiful |
| 0:33.2 | and moving story. We also talk with Jeff Conniers, who is president of the Dollywood Foundation. |
| 0:39.2 | His work also includes running Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which has over the past |
| 0:43.6 | 25 years given more than 150 million books to children to encourage reading. And to celebrate |
| 0:49.7 | National Reading Day, we gathered some book recommendations from a few young readers |
| 0:54.4 | and their parents who work on the Late Night staff. |
| 1:06.3 | The Profits is an outstanding and stunning debut novel set predominantly in the Antibellum |
| 1:10.8 | American South, but with a narrative that moves across continents, centuries, and perspectives. |
| 1:16.6 | It explores and pushes our notions about gender, love, and intimacy. Robert is remarkably |
| 1:21.6 | thoughtful and brilliant, and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed speaking |
| 1:25.4 | down. Now here is my chat with Robert Jones Jr. |
| 1:28.6 | Hi, Robert. Welcome to Late Night Lit. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:32.8 | Thank you for having me, Sarah. This is wonderful. |
| 1:35.7 | Something else that is wonderful that just happened is that you are a New York Times bestselling |
| 1:39.6 | author. |
| 1:40.6 | I can't believe it. I am in a state of utter disbelief. How did you find out did your phone |
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