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Recent Podcasts
Listen to the New York Times Book Club podcast conversation here with MJ Franklin, Lauren Christensen and Elisabeth Egan, who wrote about Jones in a February 24 profile for the Times
Mother’s Day podcast on NPR’s All Things Considered: a conversation with Tayari Jones and Meg Wolitzer on mothers
The Stacks podcast presents “The Feeling of Being Known with Tayari Jones“
Tayari Jones discusses the meaning of kin on The Book Case podcast
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NPR All Things Considered: Novelists Tayari Jones and Meg Wolitzer on Mothers
“Ahead of Mother’s Day, we brought together two novelists — and friends — Tayari Jones and Meg Wolitzer, to talk about what they love about reading and writing about mothers.” (NPR All Things Considered)
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NYT Best Books of the Year…
The New York Times lists KIN on top of the best books of the year (so far).
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The American Academy of Arts & Sciences elects Tayari Jones
Emory Professor Tayari Jones has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading independent public policy research center.
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TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2026
Tayari Jones joins Pope Leo XIV, Mayor Zohran Mamdami, Olympian Hilary Knight, and actor Claire Danes as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year. “Tayari is building a legacy while nurturing her fellow writers and dazzling her readers with grace, charm, poise, and a brilliant smile.”
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KIN Published in the UK
“A wise and consuming read about friendship.” – THE TIMES
“Affinity and affection are the touchstones of Jones’s warm, engaging fiction and they are on full display in this wonderful novel… Jones’s writing is conversational, funny and brimful of sympathy for her characters….sisterly friendship glows from the page.” – DAILY MAIL
“A beautifully written novel about fate and sisterhood.” – ECONOMIST
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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Song of Solomon’ by Toni Morrison with ‘Kin’ author Tayari Jones
“You never need a reason to read Toni Morrison or her astounding work Song of Solomon. But it’s even more relevant in a world desperately in need of healing. Tayari Jones, the author of the brand-new blockbuster novel Kin, wrote the new introduction for Song of Solomon. She says that Morrison is ‘the greatest American novelist to pick up a pen.’” – Velshi Banned Book Club -
Canada Tour Dates Announced
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Gold Award Winner of the 34th Annual North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition
Tayari Jones receives Historical Travel Gold Award for “Carolina in My Mind”, Travel + Leisure
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UK Tour Dates Announced
To celebrate the launch of her new novel KIN, Women’s Prize-Winning author Tayari Jones will be travelling around the UK in May and June
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Tayari Jones profiled in the New York Times
For Tayari Jones, All Roads and All Novels Lead to Atlanta
“In Kin, the follow-up to the best-selling An American Marriage, she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.” – The New York Times
Photo by Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times
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Tayari Jones on Fresh Air
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KIN is instant NYT and international best seller
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Tayari Jones on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Kidnapper force fed her lobster and champagne
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KIN debuts on the NYT bestseller list as #3
Kin by Tayari Jones is an instant New York Times bestseller, debuting at #3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for the week ending February 28, 2026