Ta-Nehisi Coates is guest editing the September issue of Vanity Fair - CNN

Vanity Fair profiled Coates for last year's September issue.

"I've been a great admirer of Ta-Nehisi's work for many years," Jones told CNN Business.

(HBO and CNN share a parent company in WarnerMedia.)

Vanity Fair's September issue also will include the work of more than 40 prominent writers, artists and photographers such as Eve L.

To me, that's the most exciting thing about being an editor."

Vanity Fair's September issue comes out September 1.