Podcast Episodes featuring Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead Recounts the Horrors of Jim Crow Segregation in ‘The Nickel Boys’

KQED's Forum - September 20, 2019 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Writer Colson Whitehead's new novel "The Nickel Boys" was inspired by the true story of a so-called reform school in Florida that was more of a state-sponsored prison during the Jim Crow era. There, boys and young men — especially African Americans — were subjected to cruel and sometimes even fat...

Colson Whitehead Exhumes The Past In 'The Nickel Boys'

1A - July 31, 2019 19:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 4.1K ratings
"I didn't talk about it for 50-some years," said Charlie Fudge, a former inmate at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. "We were threatened to never tell anyone about what happened there." We talked with Fudge, reporter Ben Montgomery and author Colson Whitehead about the Dozier School, the rea...

Aspen Words presents: "Winter Words" with Colson Whitehead

GrassRoots Community Network - March 27, 2019 19:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Colson Whitehead is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award. He is the author of: “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “The Colossus of New York,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor,” “Zone One” and “The Noble Hustle.” His most recent novel, “T...

Colson Whitehead: “The Underground Railroad”

Aspen Ideas to Go - February 20, 2019 01:53 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 213 ratings
Nearly two decades ago, author Colson Whitehead began thinking about writing about the Underground Railroad. “I remembered when I was a kid, I first heard those words…I thought it was a literal train beneath the earth,” he says. He put pen to paper and the result was the Pulitzer Prize-winning n...

1969:A 2016 In-Depth Interview With Colson Whitehead

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - November 08, 2016 17:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Colson Whitehead discusses The Underground Railroad.

Colson Whitehead on "The Underground Railroad" & Poker

Library Talks - August 16, 2016 14:43 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Macarthur Award-winning author Colson Whitehead's latest book, “The Underground Railroad,” was released August 2nd to widespread critical acclaim and recently named an Oprah’s Book Club Pick. The author, a former fellow at NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, came to the Library in 20...

Kimberly Fain, “Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)

New Books Network - November 30, 2015 11:37 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Colson Whitehead’s fiction has drawn varied criticism. On the one hand, there’s the scholarship of the African diaspora, a tradition that takes the long view of Whitehead–extrapolating him from their existing canon (of Du Bois, Hurston, Ellison, etc.); on the other hand, there’s the conversation ...

Colson Whitehead on Poker

Library Talks - August 18, 2015 17:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratings
The Macarthur Award-winning author joins us to celebrate the release of his latest book, “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death,” which chronicles his experience as an amateur card player trying his hand at the World Series of Poker. In a conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand, Whitehead ...

1568: A 2014 Interview with Colson Whitehead

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 09, 2014 19:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"...I won five dollars, and from then on..."

1170: A 2011 Interview with Colson Whitehead

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - October 31, 2011 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"In the Apocalypse, somebody's gonna have to do the grunt work..."

654: A 2009 Interview with Colson Whitehead

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 01, 2009 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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