• WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

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    Greenlight hosts Kiese Laymon for the launch of the revised edition of his debut novel, Long Division. Robert Jones Jr., author of the The Prophets, joins Laymon in conversation.

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