The Short Stacks 7: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah//Friday Black
Today on The Short Stacks we're honored to welcome author of this week's The Stacks Book Club pick, Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. We talk about his genre-bending short story collection, how the title and cover came to be, and what its like being part of this current moment of exciting and diverse fiction writing. There are no spoilers today.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
"In Geraldo v. Hoodie, Geraldo Loses" (John Hudson, The Atlantic)
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thomspon-Spires
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
Black Bird by Michael Fiegel
"The Short Stacks 1: Crystal Hana Kim//If You Leave Me" (The Stacks)
"Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Work in Retail Influenced His Horrifying Short Stories" (Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
Bird Box (Netflix)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
There There by Tommy Orange
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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