The Dead Parents Club with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Finally! The 3rd episode of the FLOWERS FOR LINDA audiozine is here and it’s deep and real and beautiful.
The overstory is your first book is a New York Times bestseller. The understory is your father’s recent death. FLOWERS FOR LINDA is back with my talented friend Nana in this heart-opening conversation about the collision of grief and creative success.
TUNE IN.
NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Pre-order Nana’s forthcoming novel, CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
An explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.
