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Rob Franklin's upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin's upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope

Update: 2025-08-20
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Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with novelist Rob Franklin. His debut novel Great Black Hope is about a young man, named Smith, who gets arrested for cocaine possession on his way home from a party at the end of an oppressively hot New York summer. Smith is Black, and he's queer; he's also a Stanford graduate and his family back in Atlanta is, as they say, not without means. As Smith's court date looms and he enters treatment for addiction, he's grieving the sudden and tragic death of a friend. 

Rob Franklin's upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope

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Rob Franklin's upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin's upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope