What Even Is This? Discovering Surrealist Fiction

When:
October 29, 2021 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
2021-10-29T17:30:00-04:00
2021-10-29T18:30:00-04:00
Where:
Weather Update: Now Virtual

What Even Is This? Discovering Surrealist Fiction with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and featuring Doug Fitch

Presented in Partnership with Bookstore1

Friday, October 29th @ 5:30pm ET

Location Update: Due to extreme wind, tonight’s event has been moved online via Live-Stream

In his New York Times bestselling novel Friday Black, Hermitage Fellow Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah creates a series of short stories that simultaneously feel like a dystopian future and a case study of our present moment. This surreal quality leaps off the page from start to finish as the stories swerve between both startlingly familiar and shockingly strange landscapes. Hear from the author about the importance of “beginnings” and how this has shaped his work. He is joined by Doug Fitch, international designer and direct or, who adds his perspective on surrealist art and his own artistic process.

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Hermitage Fellow Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, NY, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, The Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, and he is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.