Ep. 48 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah — The Stacks Book Club (Wade Allain-Marcus)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Friday Black is a genre-bending collection of short stories by debut author, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. It tackles the Black experience in America, consumerism, mental health and many other pressing issues of our day. Today on The Stacks, Wade Allain-Marcus (Insecure, French Dirty, Snowfall) and Traci attempt to break down the major themes and ideas from these stories for The Stacks Book Club. There are spoilers on today's episode, but if you haven't read the book yet, check out our conversation with author Adjei-Brenyah on The Short Stacks instead.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back with another episode of the stacks and I am your host Tracy Thomas. Our guest today is the |
| 0:14.3 | wonderful actor director and writer Wade Elaine Marcus and he and I are going to do a |
| 0:19.2 | deep dive into Friday Black by Nana Quame Agebrena for the Stax Book Club. |
| 0:24.6 | Nana was our guest on the short stacks this week, |
| 0:26.8 | so go hear him talk about how this book came to be |
| 0:29.5 | and learn a little bit more about the stories. |
| 0:32.0 | There also will be spoilers on today's |
| 0:34.0 | episode so I suggest that you read the book first and then come back and listen or just |
| 0:38.4 | go ahead and listen to the Short Stax episode with Nana. Okay, if you're |
| 0:42.2 | listening and enjoying the stacks I want you to know you have my patrons, |
| 0:45.5 | aka the Stacks Pack, to thank for that. |
| 0:48.0 | Patreon is a membership website that allows you to help support this show while enjoying perks for yourself. |
| 0:53.6 | We do the virtual book club where we get on a video chat to discuss the most recent Stacks book club books, |
| 0:59.4 | and that's all something that we do with our patrons. |
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