Colson, Born to Run, Zahedi
Kurt Andersen talks with novelist Colson Whitehead about the power of names and why he wanted the hero of his book to be an expert in product branding. We’ll hear from a filmmaker whose colossal...
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WNYC's Picks for the Brooklyn Book Festival
More than 260 authors and panelists will be in downtown Brooklyn on Sunday for the sixth annual Brooklyn Book Festival. Panels are devoted to a wide range of topics during the day-long free fest....
View ArticleColson Whitehead on 'Zone One' and Zombies
Colson Whitehead has famously tackled topics like a young man's coming of age in "Sag Harbor," the social elevation of African Americans in "The Intuitionist," and America’s industrial age in "John...
View ArticleBreaking Taboos with Tim Minchin and Colson Whitehead
Studio 360 is breaking taboos live onstage, at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in Manhattan. The Australian comedian-singer-songwriter Tim Minchin turns a diss into a show tune. Raconteur Cintra...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name?
The hero of Colson Whitehead's new novel Apex Hides the Hurt is an advertising executive with a natural gift for branding new products. Kurt Andersen asked Whitehead why he gave his character the...
View ArticleColson Whitehead Goes Zombie
Colson Whitehead is one of America’s most respected novelists, the author of The Intuitionist and Sag Harbor and a MacArthur ‘genius.’ But his new book goes pretty lowbrow. Zone One is about zombies —...
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Imagining the Underground Railroad as an actual train system
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a new look at the terrible cost of slavery in America. It comes in a work of fiction, one that combines gritty realism with a leap of the...
View ArticleColson Whitehead Goes Zombie
Colson Whitehead is one of America’s most respected novelists, the author of “The Intuitionist” and “Sag Harbor,” and a MacArthur genius. But his book, “Zone One” gets pretty lowbrow. It's about...
View ArticleOh the Horror!
Spine-tingling tales from the Studio 360 crypt! “Evil Dead” director Sam Raimi talks about the horrors of Hollywood filmmaking. We audit Tom Savini’s course in decapitation and dismemberment. And the...
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3 books you need to read to understand the Civil War
Workers remove monuments to Robert E. Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate army in the American Civil War, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a Confederate general, from Wyman Park in Baltimore,...
View ArticleColson Whitehead Reads “The Match”
Colson Whitehead reads his story “The Match,” from the April 1, 2019, issue of the magazine. Whitehead has published six novels, including “The Intuitionist” and “The Underground Railroad,” which won...
View ArticleColson Whitehead Get Lit Preview
ColsonWhitehead joins us for a preview conversation about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys ahead of his Get Lit with All Of It book club event.To find out more about our Get Lit with...
View ArticleOur Get Lit with All Of It Events with Colson Whitehead and Emma Straub
[REBROADCAST FROM JULY 31, 2020] We air highlights from our conversation with Colson Whitehead about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, from our virtual Get Lit with All Of It...
View ArticleColson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle'
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.
View ArticleColson Whitehead, 'Ted Lasso' Preview, 'Black Nerd Problems', 'American Crime...
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.Kathryn VanArendonk, staff writer for Vulture,...
View Article'Harlem Shuffle' with Colson Whitehead
[REBROADCAST FROM September 14, 2021] Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.
View ArticleBooks Show: 'Harlem Shuffle', 'Detransition, Baby', 'New York, New York, New...
[REBROADCAST FROM September 14, 2021] Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s...
View ArticleHow Historical Novels Can Help Us Remember
Fifty years ago, if you wanted to be considered a serious novelist, you might write a contemporary novel. One that captured the current moment and all its anxieties, fashions, technologies. But in the...
View ArticleColson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he won the Pulitzer again for...
View ArticleThe Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on “American Prometheus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the father of the atomic bomb, by...
View ArticleColson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he won the Pulitzer again for...
View ArticleHow the Historical Novel Took Over
Fifty years ago, if you wanted to be considered a serious novelist, you might write a contemporary novel. One that captured the current moment and all its anxieties, fashions, and technologies. But in...
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