Interview: Colson Whitehead – The New York Times

The interview was originally broadcast on May 13, 2001 Colson Whitehead cautiously approached the cold, deserted tunnel and dared to enter. “Water was dripping everywhere,” he recalls. “It was really damp and muddy.” As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he tried to block out the graffiti covering the slippery walls of the tunnel and …

Colson Whitehead on ‘Harlem Shuffle’

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer | How to Listen Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “Harlem mix,” It revolves around Ray Carney, a furniture retailer in Harlem in the 1960s. It’s a relatively light-hearted novel, certainly in comparison to Whitehead’s two previous novels, “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” each of which won a …

Colson Whitehead’s Warm-hearted Novel of 1960s Criminal Conspiracy in Harlem

The robbery, which occupies the first part of the book, is perfectly executed both by its participants and by its omniscient author. Whitehead’s prose becomes tense, exciting, and jolly as he describes the (fictional) printing of the (real) Hotel Theresa—the lucky “center of the Negro world”. “Robbing The Hotel Theresa” was like “kissing Mickey to …

A Crime Grows in Harlem in Colson Whitehead’s New Novel

Colson Whitehead writes about the crime-prone Harlem furniture salesman Ray Carney at the center of his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle”: Whitehead’s own mind is famous for nine dissimilar books, but this time he hit a fiction that sticks. He said he could keep Ray going to another book and it wouldn’t take long to figure …

New Season of 92nd Street Y features Colson Whitehead and Susan Orlean

Scheduled as his first solo season since March 2020, 92nd Street Y brings in multiple stage and screen stars and a strong roster of writers that will include Susan Orlean, Colm Toibin and Colson Whitehead. Whitehead, the 2016 novel “Underground Railroad” Won the Pulitzer Prize and adapted into an Amazon series this yearwill begin the …