What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

‘A Valentine with a body count’: Colson Whitehead’s three-volume love letter to Harlem

Bianna Golodryga speaks to the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the release of “Cool Machine,” the final book in his blockbuster trilogy of New York-based crime novels

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in literary history, one of the literati of the post-Toni Morrison era, trained at elite schools (Trinity School, Harvard), highly attuned to nuances of race and gender bias. He is gifted with a wild imagination and a maverick impulse to be free to use any form for any particular project. He’s a Gen Xer schooled in video games, early Marvel comics, horror movies, D&D, punk, funk, electronic and hip-hop, …