Jericho Brown on "The Tradition" | 2019 National Book Festival

We're continuing our coverage of the National Book Festival with Guggenheim Fellow and National Book Award winner Jericho Brown. This Shreveport-raised poet and professor has been published in the New Yorker, The New Republic, and is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. His latest, The Tradition, eloquently raises alarms to a society accustomed to terror and is a fusion of lyrical styles exploring identity, legacy, fatherhood and trauma.
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[@AttractaFahy1]

Wish I could buy it - sold out every time I try! I can’t pre order when new stock comes in 😢 Will it ever get to Ireland! The postage from America is ridiculous- but it’s worth it! Hurry up and restock!

[@ChillVanille]

Yes I know I waited weeks and even when it came back in stock I had to buy the more expensive hardback edition! Keep looking!

[@judithkearney4363]

If you don’t already have it, order it from Shakespeare and Company in Paris. They had plenty when I bought mine there a couple months ago.

[@LMironono]

Jericho Brown is preternaturally conversational. Oscar Wilde with better kindness and hair.

[@nekaylasmith]

He's actually quite the jerk. Not a good person. Fame means nothing.

[@TeamRayceen]

Please watch our interview with Jericho Brown here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJSuf32jabB8idk

[@LifeNationKC]

This interviewer is disrespectful. Talk about his poetry, not his health status. Do better.

[@nekaylasmith]

I don't like him anymore after getting to know him... Deeply mean and ill tempered due to what he has went through in life. I'm not his savior.