Author Talk | Kosoko Jackson

Join award-winning author Kosoko Jackson as he discusses his new horror novel, "The Macabre," a story about dark art, a family curse spreading 150 years, a handsome agent of the British museum, and a painter who can tell the future through his paint.

A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has recently passed away, no one has ever praised his work. If he is being honest, there’s really no one in his life. So he is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. This is his chance to show the world what he’s capable of…he just has no idea that he might also be saving the world at the same time.

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Kosoko Jackson is the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the USA Today bestseller The Forest Demands Its Due. When not writing, he’s trying to watch one hundred movies a year, working on his MFA in producing homework, or juggling teaching responsibilities. He lives in New Jersey with his golden retriever, Artemis.

Moderator Doug Jones was born in Brooklyn, NY. He is an alumnus of Morehouse College and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. The Fantasies of Future Things is his debut novel. His work has been included in the anthologies Black Love Letters, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art, and Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. He has written for LitHub.com, Black Issues Book Review and Venus Magazine. An inaugural fellow of the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, the Hurston/Wright Foundation recognized Doug’s early work. An avid art collector who enjoys swimming and traveling, Doug is a proud pet Dad to a lovable mixed bred German Shepherd, Baldwin. He lives in Atlanta, GA. 

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