FROM UALBANY TO THE LITERARY STRATOSPHERE
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Online event 4:30 p.m.
Meeting ID: 927 4266 4825 | Passcode: 476971
Note: The 7:30 p.m. in-person event has been canceled.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, breakout bestselling author and UAlbany English Department alum, is the author of the debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars (May 2023), the story of two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own.
Author Kiese Laymon said in advance praise, “I’ve never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. It’s nuts brilliant. Just read it!”
Adjei-Brenyah took the literary world by storm with his first story collection, Friday Black (2018), a satirical look at what it’s like to be young and Black in America. In 2018, he was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree by Colson Whitehead.
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Photo credit:
Limitless Imprint Entertainment
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With generous support from the UAlbany Alumni Association. Cosponsored by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Program.