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The stories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut collection, “Friday Black,” feel very much of this moment: Funny and violent and angry in equal measure, they cast a cleareyed look at themes of race and class in America. “I was in college when Trayvon Martin was murdered. And like a lot of people my age, that marked a shift in my consciousness. I started looking at the world a little bit differently,” Adjei-Brenyah says on this week’s podcast, explaining his earliest impulse to address politics in his writing. “I made a pamphlet, and I thought we were going to save the world with it. I anonymously distributed it around campus with one of my great friends and I went to bed thinking: ‘Well, we did it. We fixed racism today.’ And when I woke up, obviously, the world was still as it was. We had pretty much just littered. … Black people being murdered is unfortunately a constant in this country. Murdered with…
