Sunday, October 25· 3:30pm
Colson Whitehead Talks with Julian Lucas
Colson Whitehead, a native New Yorker, won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.” His most recent novels, which together constitute his Harlem Trilogy, are “Harlem Shuffle,” “Crook Manifesto,” and “Cool Machine.” This summer, the New Yorker staff writer Julian Lucas wrote an
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eight-thousand-word Profile of Whitehead, following him from a Manhattan bench with his name on it to his East Hampton home and a reading in Wyoming, ultimately shining light on the man that Time magazine called “America’s Storyteller.” Apparently, they only scratched the surface, so Lucas is returning for a deeper conversation with the award-winning writer.
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