Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Has Respect for a Tough Edit

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah burst onto the literary scene in 2018 with the short-story collection Friday Black, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book. He has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, so you might not be surprised to […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-02 08:54:07 UTC ]

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