Fiction writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where they talk about pop culture in the literary sphere, the blurring of the line between literary and popular fiction, and subverting tropes within their genres (plus, a bit of Frasier fanfiction). Nana reads from his short story collection Friday Black, and Sequoia reads from his novel How High We Go in the Dark. The two also take questions from the live audience at Unbound.
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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf, Carter Groves, Brooke Spalding-Ford, Shannon Moran, Maria Starns, and Kayla Wiltfong.
Selected readings for the episode:
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Friday Black
Sequoia Nagamatsu
How High We Go in the Dark
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
"Elegy Hotel" by Sequoia Nagamatsu, print and audio, The Southern Review
Others
Race in American Science Fiction
Star Trek
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra T-shirt
Sony Aibo
Servant Trailer
Star Trek: The Chase Monologue
“The Origins of Directed Panspermia” | Scientific American
2K Games
Final Fantasy
Madden
Deathloop
Panic! at the Disco
Pearl Jam
Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
The Orville
Blade Runner
Big Hero 6: The Series
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Frasier
Groundhog Day
Edge of Tomorrow
Attack on Titan
Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Palm Springs
Dragon Ball Z
Viet Thanh Nguyen
TVtropes.org
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