Jason Mott didn’t just title his novel after a microaggression that is casually slipped into conversations — such as when a gun dealer says to the author, “We could use a few more people like you.” ...

Jason Mott won the National Book Award a few years ago for "Hell Of A Book." And he knows everybody's looking for the writer's life in whatever they've put on the page. JASON MOTT: If I wrote a story ...

Gun violence, grief, love, and laughter collide in Jason Mott’s People Like Us, a novel that’s wickedly funny and achingly sad all at once. This session is moderated by the Decatur Book Festival’s ...

In “People Like Us,” Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence. By Colin Grant Colin Grant is the author of six books including “Bageye at the Wheel.” He’s also ...

Jason Mott may have found the cure for male loneliness: a cage match. No, we’re not talking about MMA or pro wrestling. Twice a year, Mott, the National Book Award-winning author, has about a dozen ...

PEOPLE LIKE US. By Jason Mott. Dutton. 288 pages. $30. North Carolina native Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for “Hell of a Book,” well-earned recognition for one of the most ...