Jesse Williams's Book Recommendations

"F*cking funny, vivid, and adventurous. Sometimes that’s what we need."

"Helped rid me of the nagging incompleteness in my understood connection between the successes and failings of ancient and modern civilizations."

"The characters’ dilemmas just rocked my world in high school."

"The protagonist’s audacious self-confidence and refusal to compromise his artistic vision—which was to say, himself—was a fascinating thing to survey."

"A seminal work in American and African-American literature."