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.

īooks will be available for purchase at the event. 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 2021 Pulitzer Prize recipient, Mitchell S. 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 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.The historian has tackled complicated subjects before, including Catherine the Great and Stalin, but here his aim is to demonstrate human interconnectivity through the machinations and matches made - from the Ming Dynasty through the Arab empire all the way to presidents and oligarchs. You read that correctly: Montefiore’s new opus runs to 1,344 pages. But scams, like summer, can’t last forever, and Alex winds up in more trouble than she bargained for. Fortunately, it’s summertime, and she finds that cadging shelter can be as easy as stealing a pair of flip-flops from a beach. Alex, a sex worker, finds herself stranded in the tony Hamptons of Long Island. Unlike Cline’s attention-getting debut, “ The Girls,” her new novel focuses on a single grifter. With ‘Daddy,’ she takes aimĬline’s new collection of short stories, her followup to “The Girls,” features women performing their sexuality and older men in cancellation limbo.

Books Emma Cline was a literary darling, then a target.

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