The Center For Fiction welcomed Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of Real Life and Filthy Animals , back to our stage to celebrate the release of his highly anticipated novel Minor Black Figures . Matthew Sitman, host of the Know Your Enemy podcast, joined Taylor in conversation.

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In Minor Black Figures , Taylor casts a sharp gaze on the New York art scene through the eyes of Wyeth, a young Black painter caught in the throes of creative struggle. As Wyeth searches for inspiration, he confronts the fraught relationship between Black and white art and wrestles with the complex ways the Black body is perceived and represented.…