“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday. “’Nickel Boys’ signals the emergence of a major filmmaking voice,” said Dennis Lim, the festival’s artistic director, in a statement. “RaMell Ross’ fiction debut, like his previous work in photography and documentary, searches for new ways of …
The club of writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize twice for fiction is small. Colson Whitehead: You know that's what made me a writer, not being a journalist or being 12 and thinking, "I wanna write Stephen King-type horror novels." John Dickerson: And did any of them change the title in a way that's-- you know, sometimes when it's …
