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Colson Whitehead was ready for a heist. The New York-based novelist was in the midst of a remarkable run of work: “The Underground Railroad” (published in 2016) and “The Nickel Boys” (2019 ...
Gilbert Cruz is joined by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, who talks about his novel “Crook Manifesto,” which picks up the tale of furniture salesman and sometime crook Ray ...
You’re Colson Whitehead, and you’ve just pocketed a couple of Pulitzers for harrowing novels — “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” — that wrung beauty from the abyss ...
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Colson Whitehead starts laughing when he hears the first question. Because the first question for the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel ...
CROOK MANIFESTO, by Colson Whitehead Returning to the world of his novel “Harlem Shuffle,” Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto” is a dazzling treatise, a glorious and intricate anatomy ...
So writes Colson Whitehead at the start of Crook Manifesto, the sequel to his 2021 novel Harlem Shuffle and the second installment of his Harlem Trilogy. Anyone who has already read Harlem Shuffle ...
Tribeca Festival unveiled an eclectic jury lineup across 15 categories with writers, directors. actors, Oscar winners and ...
Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.
In the first of those interviews, Colson Whitehead remembers what it was like to write and publish “The Underground Railroad” “It was a wild time, definitely,” Whitehead said.
In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week's hottest new book releases. All books are on sale Tuesday. Make sure to sign up for our ...
Little more than 100 pages into Colson Whitehead’s remarkable new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” a sequel to the best-selling “Harlem Shuffle,” Herschel “Uncle Heshie” Lefkowitz ...