Doug E. Jones — The Fantasies of Future Things - with Joseph Williams

Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, Jacob fears that accepting the truth of his sexuality will disappoint the hopes his parents have for him to lead a respectable life. Grieving the death of his mother while searching for answers about a father he has never known, Daniel, an Atlanta native, has resigned himself to the reality that men who love men don't have happy endings.When Jacob meets Sherman, a social worker fighting for one of the families being displaced by the project, he must decide if rejecting security is worth the risk of embracing the unknown. In the midst of navigating his grief, and volatile relationship with Jacob, Daniel learns of his father's identity. Though meeting his father could provide Daniel with the closure he has always sought, the distance between what Daniel wants and what he's willing to do for it remains a question only he can answer.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781668016282?ic_referral=KbyLDsvQkm5AJuCLD9OnwpTKvWenPlxysfzJlTWEn0EwMyoTolPqfgthqQ7c6PW1ykrCtQknWFTFHbst32Sd52QE1kGeermGKANRe31eZhv57TMjLYXpjyAJcnVRsRqtJNaswuUDouglas E. Jones graduated from Morehouse College and received an MFA from Columbia University. In 2007, he was an inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at American Jewish University, where he studied with Dorothy Allison. His nonfiction has been included in the anthology Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art and his poetry has been published in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. Doug is a full-time, licensed real estate agent in Brooklyn, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia. He lives in Atlanta. The Fantasies of Future Things is his debut novel.Jones is in conversation with Joseph Williams. A seasoned journalist, political analyst and essayist, Joseph Williams is Deputy Managing Director for Word In Black, a news consortium of 10 legacy Black newspapers. As a reporter and writer, Wiliams has been published in a variety of outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Nation and US News & World Report. A California native, Williams is a graduate of the University of Richmond and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.*recorded 6/14/2025