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Find out what Zed's bibliophiles are reading and loving, from Stephen Graham Jones' chilling historical horror to a new kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain's former assistant Laurie Woolever ...
Author Colson Whitehead, who comes to town this week, has memories of past trips to St. Louis. In addition to the awards banquet, Whitehead will also meet with SLU students and give a public craft ...
NEW YORK – “Nickel Boys” is unlike any movie you’ll see this year. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the lyrical drama follows two Black teens in the 1960s ...
When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a dangerous reform school in the 1960s ...
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” (itself inspired by real-life stories of Florida’s now-closed Dozier School for Boys), Ross’ film sounds on the ...
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.
Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel of the same, the Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios film, which Ross co-wrote with Joslyn Barnes, follows the powerful friendship between ...
Plan B's Dede Gardner and Louverture's Joslyn Barnes collaborated with writer/director Ross to create a unique point-of-view language for adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Colson Whitehead is one of the rare authors to win the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first time was for his novel "The Underground Railroad" in 2017, loved by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey and made ...
Then at the end they’re like, ‘You ever heard of Colson Whitehead? He just wrote a new book, The Nickel Boys. It’s not released yet, but we want to know what you think,” he says ...
"I wanted to be a writer from an early age, but I really became a writer once my first book didn't sell," said Colson Whitehead, the 14th Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell ...
Based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, the tale is based on Florida's Dozier School for Boys, where hundreds of years of abuse were uncovered in the early 21st ...