Toni at Random: In Conversation with Dana A. Williams and Jonquilyn Hill

Sun Nov 30 2025 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

Barnes & Noble | Alexandria

Barnes & Noble (Potomac Yard)
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Toni at Random: In Conversation with Dana A. Williams and Jonquilyn Hill
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Author Dana A. Williams will be discussing her new book Toni at Random with Jonquilyn Hill at Barnes & Noble Potomac Yard
About this Event

Join us in-store on Sunday, November 30th at 3 PM as we host Dana A. Williams discussing Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship with Jonquilyn Hill from Vox.

Dana A. Williams is Professor of African American literature and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University. She is former president of the College Language Association and the Modern Languages Association, and is the author of In the Light of Likeness—Transformed: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest. She is also the editor of several books. Her work has been published in prestigious journals, including PMLA, CLA Journal, African American Review, Early American Literature, American Literary History, and the Langston Hughes Review. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She co-directs the Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, a Mellon Foundation-funded collaboration between Howard and Georgetown universities. Williams lives in Maryland.


Jonquilyn Hill is the host of Explain It to Me, your hotline for all your unanswered questions. She joined Vox in 2022 as a senior producer and then as host of The Weeds, Vox’s policy podcast.

Before joining Vox, she was a senior producer for WAMU and NPR’s 1A, where she helped launch the show and oversaw the team that adapted the broadcast into a daily podcast. While at WAMU, she also created and hosted Through The Cracks, a podcast that examined the systems in place that led to the disappearance of 8-year-old Relisha Rudd from a Washington, DC, homeless shelter. She previously worked at NPR, NY1, and NBC’s Washington bureau.

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Barnes & Noble, 3651 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, United States

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