A new nonfiction book is set to arrive in the hands of book lovers very soon.
According to a press release obtained by PEOPLE, Ta-Nehisi Coates — a journalist and New York Times bestselling author — is set to release his first nonfiction book in 10 years this fall.
One World, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, announced on Thursday, May 29 that Coates would be releasing his book The Message on October 1, 2024.
“How do the stories our writers, historians, and leaders tell — our narratives of nationalism, our fables of supremacy, our entrenched lies and hidden histories — shape the world around us and our most intimate notions of ourselves?,” asks the release. “Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, but he’s also a college professor whose students have returned him again and again to this simple question: in an age of war, inequality and overlapping crises, why do stories matter?”
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The Message will explore that very question using South Carolina, Palestine and Senegal as case studies.
According to the release, the author uses personal narrative, literature, history and on-the-ground reporting to provide an understanding of the truth that gets obfuscated by “propaganda, wishful thinking and enforced silence.”
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“Ta-Nehisi’s best work takes readers along as intimate companions on his journeys into history, the American present and his own probing, curious mind,” says Chris Jackson, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of One World, in a statement. “In The Message he’s at his most expansive and incisive — this is a writer’s quest to use the tools of reportage, language and imagination to find clarity in a confounding world.”
“I’m thrilled to be once again publishing with Chris, One World and Penguin/Random House, but I am especially thrilled to be back publishing nonfiction in this particular political moment,” said Coates, per the release.
The Message is out October 1 and available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.
