![]() ![]() Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx. He was a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book, along with many other honors. ![]() Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Presented in collaboration with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureĪSL interpretive services are provided by ProBono ASL. In a world not far from our own, and one in which prisoners are modern-day gladiators, the propulsive novel examines “what freedom in this country really means,” and interrogates the “American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration.” He is joined in conversation with New York Times- bestselling author, Roxane Gay.īooks will be available for purchase at the event. New York Times- bestselling author and 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award-winner, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah joins PEN Out Loud to discuss his debut novel, Chain-Gang All -Stars, a kaleidoscopic narrative that peels away at the American carceral system. ![]() ![]() Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037 (917) 275-6975 by subway: 2/3 to 135th street, A/B/C to 135th street ![]()
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