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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Many involved in crypto saw Sandbankman Freed as a breath of fresh air from the usual Wall Street buffs. |
0:05.1 | But in just one month, his crypto exchange would collapse. From Bloomberg and Wonderree comes |
0:10.0 | Spellcaster, a new six-part docuseries about the wild rise and fall of FTX and its founder |
0:15.2 | Sandbankman Freed. Listen to Spellcaster on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:20.4 | Wonderree's new podcast, Disantel, wades into the glorious mess of celebrity beef. |
0:26.0 | Each episode explores a different iconic celebrity feud, and asks, |
0:30.4 | what does our obsession with these feuds say about us? Follow Disantel wherever you get your |
0:35.6 | podcasts. You can listen to ad free on the Amazon Music or Wonderree app. |
0:45.2 | Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Janks daily, supervising producer at Late Night, and this is Late Night Lit. |
0:56.4 | Nana Kwame Ajebrenia burst onto the literary scene a few years ago with his debut short story |
1:03.8 | collection Friday Black. His debut novel is entitled Chain Gang All Stars, and it's set in a world |
1:10.8 | where prisoners become gladiators, participating in televised fights to the death before rabid viewing |
1:17.2 | audiences of millions. We're joined today by Nana to discuss the research and reading he did |
1:23.2 | into our nation's carceral system, the dystopian future where he set the story, and where he was when |
1:29.0 | he found out that Chain Gang All Stars was a read with Jenna Pick. Now here's my conversation with Nana |
1:35.2 | Kwame Ajebrenia. We are here with Nana Kwame Ajebrenia, Nana welcome to Late Night Lit. |
1:44.5 | Thank you so much for having me, I'm excited to be here. So you've been on Late Night before, we were |
1:49.1 | hoping to have you back on Tuesday, my second to celebrate this new novel. We had to cancel the show |
1:54.4 | because of the writer's strike, but I am thrilled you could do this. I just wanted to mention when |
1:59.6 | we originally talked, you said you were looking forward to coming back on the show to extend your |
2:03.8 | title, and I thought it was so funny, so I was wondering if you wanted to share what that title was |
2:07.3 | with our listeners. Yeah, it's important, and of course, first off, solidarity to the writers, so |
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