I sat down with award-winning author Brandon Taylor live at Brixton House Theatre to mark the UK launch of his latest novel, Minor Black Figures. Our conversation explores what happens when Black artists resist the demands of the always-on attention economy to instead embrace the archives, tend to our cultural inheritances and allow ourselves—and the characters in our art—the messy complexities we are so often encouraged to hide.

06:20 How's your heart?

18:00 Real Life in a Black Square Summer

36:00 Minor Black Figures in Interminable Pandemics

43:00 It's okay to be an uppity negro

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