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Conversations with Colson Whitehead (Hardcover)
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Conversations with Colson Whitehead (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in
1999, Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) has been considered an important
new voice in American literature. His seven subsequent books have
done little to contradict that initial assessment, especially after
2016's The Underground Railroad spent numerous weeks at the top of
bestseller lists and won numerous major literary awards, including
the Pulitzer Prize. Ranging from 2001 to 2016, the twenty-three
interviews collected in Conversations with Colson Whitehead reveal
the workings of one of America's most idiosyncratic and most
successful literary minds. Through these interviews, it is clear
that none of this well-earned praise has gone to his head. If
anything, he still seems inclined to present himself as an awkward
misfit who writes about such offbeat subject matter as rival groups
of elevator inspectors, the insufficiency of off-brand
"flesh-colored" bandages, or a literalized alternate version of the
Underground Railroad. Whitehead speaks at length about matters
related to his craft, including his varied literary and nonliterary
influences, the particular methods of researching and writing that
have proved valuable to telling his stories, and the ways in which
he has managed the rollercoaster life of a professional writer. He
also opens up about popular culture, particularly the
unconventional blend of music, genre-fiction, B movies, and comic
books that he gleefully identifies as a passion that has persisted
for him since his childhood.
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