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)
- George Saunders
- 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
- Gayl Jones
- Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
- Corregidora by Gayl Jones
- Black Bird by Michael Fiegel
- Arthur Flowers
- Bruce Smith
- ZZ Packer
- “The Short Stacks 1: Crystal Hana Kim//If You Leave Me” (The Stacks)
- Jami Attenberg
- “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)
- “Patricia Smith – Skinhead – Def Poetry Jam” (Youtube)
- Roger Reeves
- Trevante Rhodes
- Bird Box (Netflix)
- Sandra Bullock
- 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
- Aja Gabel
- Nicole Chung
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