5/18/2023 0 Comments Friday black adjei brenyah![]() ![]() NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH: I don't want to, like, suggest that any black writer has any particular thing they have to do. And I wonder, as a black writer, do you feel that that is partially your responsibility, to have a political take on things? But one thing that separates you from other authors I've read in that genre is that your writing seems to be explicitly political. NOEL KING, BYLINE: You write in this field of speculative fiction, or dystopian fiction - whatever you want to call it. Or is it really exaggeration? He spoke with Noel King. And that experience informs the short story collection he calls "Friday Black." Adjei-Brenyah's book makes its points by exaggerating race and class divisions and consumer culture. He worked in the holiday season, which peaks on Black Friday. Years ago, the writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah worked in a clothing store. ![]()
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