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Books of the month: From Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto to Unseen by Selina Mills
1 year, 6 months ago

Books of the month: From Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto to Unseen by Selina Mills

The Independent  

Who in this world hasn’t come across someone labelled a “weasel”? Novels by Patrick deWitt, Catherine Chidgey, Emily Perkins and Colson Whitehead, along with Selina Mills’s non-fiction book about being blind and a history of British comedy by David Stubbs are reviewed in full below. “He was pushing red meat into his red mouth, and his head was red, and …

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Colson Whitehead just wants to have fun
3 years, 3 months ago

Colson Whitehead just wants to have fun

LA Times  

On the Shelf Harlem Shuffle By Colson Whitehead Doubleday: 336 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Cool It Baby,” one of three connected stories that make up Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “Harlem Shuffle,” opens in the aftermath of this eruption, when furniture dealer/fence …

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The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen

Firstpost  

“This isn’t the first slave narrative that’s been made, but I think we’re creating these images in a way, cinematically, that they just haven’t been created before,” says The Underground Railroad director Barry Jenkins. “To my surprise, only 10 percent of the people said that it shouldn’t be done,” Jenkins told me when I visited him in Atlanta near the …

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Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
4 years, 10 months ago

Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists

LA Times  

Author Walter Mosley, named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, is best known for his mystery series featuring detective Easy Rawlins. Farrow will compete with Bazelon’s “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration,” “The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California” by Mark Arax, as well as Dina …

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Books of the week: From Sunanda Pushkar biography to Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, our picks
5 years, 5 months ago

Books of the week: From Sunanda Pushkar biography to Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, our picks

Firstpost  

Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar. *** — FICTION The Nickel Boys By Colson Whitehead Penguin Random House | Rs 479 | 224 pages Colson Whitehead’s latest release The Nickel Boys is a follow-up to his The Underground Railroad, which won him the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. …

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