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Colson Whitehead

  1. nyff 2024
    RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys to Open New York Film FestivalThe director and visual artist’s fiction debut is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
    By Zoe Guy
  2. the library is open
    Put Down the Juneteenth Ice Cream and Pick Up These 18 BooksA reading list for America’s latest greeting-card category.
    By Jordan Taliha McDonald
  3. vulture lists
    18 New Beach Reads for Every Kind of Book LoverBooks so good you’ll forget to reapply sunscreen.
  4. a long talk
    How Colson Whitehead Pulled It OffHis new novel is Harlem Shuffle, a very New York story about life in the gray area between legitimacy and hustle.
    By Craig Jenkins
  5. fall preview 2021
    40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
  6. tv development
    Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor in Development at HBO MaxThe Underground Railroad effect.
    By Zoe Haylock
  7. teasers
    Barry Jenkins Is Dropping Underground Railroad HintsGet a first look at the Colson Whitehead adaptation coming to Prime Video.
    By Zoe Haylock
  8. awards
    Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize, A Strange Loop Wins for DramaPlus, New York’s own Justin Davidson is a finalist in criticism.
    By Justin Curto
  9. casting
    William Jackson Harper Joins Amazon’s Underground RailroadMore fraught ethical quandaries! Goody!
    By Bethy Squires
  10. must reads
    7 New Books You Should Read This JulyColson Whitehead, Helen Phillips, Lisa Taddeo, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  11. summer preview
    12 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerColson Whitehead, Jia Tolentino, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, and more.
    By Hillary Kelly and Maris Kreizman
  12. awp conference
    Colson Whitehead’s Fierce and Funny Primer on Life and Chicken“If it tastes like shit, it’s cultural appropriation,” and other lessons from the Pulitzer winner’s keynote speech at the AWP conference.
    By Evan Allgood
  13. barry jenkins
    Barry Jenkins to Direct Every Episode of Amazon’s Underground RailroadThe Colson Whitehead adaptation has been officially ordered to series.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  14. man booker prize
    2017 Man Booker Prize Long List: Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Arundhati RoyColson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, and more made the cut.
    By Dee Lockett
  15. year in culture 2016
    The 10 Best Books of 2016No. 1: The Underground Railroad.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  16. Colson Whitehead Has Some Advice for Getting Through the Next Four Years “Be kind to everybody, make art, and fight the power.”
    By Gabe Cohn
  17. great adaptations
    Underground Railroad to Become Limited SeriesThis is bound to be brilliant.
    By Devon Ivie
  18. national book award
    Here’s the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction Long ListColson Whitehead is a first-time nominee for The Underground Railroad.
    By Dee Lockett
  19. How Colson Whitehead Got From Zombies to SlaveryThe novel is a major departure for him.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  20. books
    In Conversation With Colson WhiteheadThe author of The Underground Railroad on Oprah’s endorsement and avoiding clichés of the “Southern Novel of Black Misery.”
    By BORIS KACHKA
  21. oprah book club 2.0
    Oprah Picks Whitehead’s Underground RailroadAnd will also be excerpted in the New York Times.
    By Nate Jones
  22. end of days
    Why TV Apocalypses Are Really Wish-Fulfillment FablesSure, there are zombies and militias on The Walking Dead and Revolution, but life is so simple.
    By Heather Havrilesky
  23. chat room
    Colson Whitehead on His Zombie Novel, Growing Up on Horror Films, and Turning His Book Into a Movie“The problem with movie options is that you say yes, and then you realize that whatever happened is not your vision.”
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  24. clickables
    Read the First Section of Colson Whitehead’s Zone OneThe “zombie novel” is out October 18.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  25. ranters and ravers
    James Wood SpoofedColson Whitehead parodies ‘How Fiction Works’ in the new ‘Harper’s.’
    By Lane Brown