Ep 405 - Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Friday Black, a debut collection of short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, deftly employs hyperbole to make the reader notice horrors of American life that have become less-noticeable through repetition. It’s also going to resonate with anyone who has spent any amount of time working retail on the day after Thanksgiving.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, I have a question for you about a shirt I saw at the grocery store today. |
| 0:46.3 | Great. |
| 0:47.3 | If you saw a man walking down the aisle of grocery store and the back of his shirt said |
| 0:52.6 | really big, I wrote it down specifically so I wouldn't forget. |
| 0:57.2 | Anti-vegan vegan club with no like hyphens and all the text is the same type of face, |
| 1:04.2 | same text size. |
| 1:05.8 | How would you scan that? |
| 1:08.9 | How was your brain do with that? |
| 1:11.0 | Is he a vegan who just doesn't like people who are vegan? |
| 1:16.8 | I see, I thought that too, but then I think that there is nothing more vegan than publicly |
| 1:23.1 | proclaiming yourself to be vegan. |
| 1:25.1 | So I don't know if it actually fulfills the purpose that it permits to be fulfilling. |
| 1:33.0 | It might be a self-own of a shirt. |
| 1:35.2 | Like he may have inadvertently anti-veganed himself by wearing, by donning the shirt of |
| 1:41.4 | the anti-vegan vegan club. |
| 1:42.6 | Can you be in a club of anti-vegans if you're a vegan? |
| 1:46.4 | Now I'm wondering, is he in a club that is only anti-vegan vegan? |
| 1:54.8 | Wait, what does that mean? |
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