Episode 143: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer based in the Bronx, NY. In his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars , Nana presents us with a dystopian future America where convicted prisoners fight each other to the death in a televised bloodsport. The book is both a blistering critique of the US carceral system and an insistence on the inalienable humanity of every person. In our conversation, Nana and I talked about what satire and dystopia open up for him as a writer, why it's important to him to implicate both the reader and himself in his work, and how he thinks about prison abolition. Then in the second segment, we talked about the seductive nature of success as an artist in a capitalist society.

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Episode 143: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an episode from Keep the Channel Open by Mike Sakasegawa.

This episode is 01:07:07 long.

This episode was published on Aug 2, 2023.

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