Colson Whitehead
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The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead
Michael Rymer reviews THE NOBLE HUSTLE by Colson Whitehead today in The Rumpus Books.
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A Higher Art
In his By the Book interview at the New York Times, Colson Whitehead claims he doesn’t know the name of his all-time favorite novelist: …because they never wrote anything. They had no inkling they had a knack for writing, so…
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Just Another Sap in the Night
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death, Colson Whitehead’s new memoir about his participation in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, will be out on May 6th. NPR just published an excerpt: After a few phone calls, the administration released…
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“Hard Times in the Uncanny Valley”
Colson Whitehead went on a London Olympics adventure, which you can read all about in his multi-part dispatch for Grantland. “I started scoring events in terms of what they’d offer in a human-annihilation-type scenario. Offensewise, archery skills seemed like an…
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Writing Rules From Colson Whitehead
Want a free writing lesson? Colson Whitehead has some helpful tips over at The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. If you missed it, be sure to read Nancy Smith’s Rumpus interview with Whitehead right here.
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The Rumpus Interview with Colson Whitehead
“I write books and either people read them or they don’t read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn’t change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.”
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The NYT Offends with its Sunday Book Review of Zone One
A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star, right? Well that’s what New York Times book reviewer Glen Duncan thinks. In his Sunday Book Review of Colson Whitehead’s complex new zombie novel, Zone…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Miller
In 1995, a small group of writers and editors met to plan Salon. Laura Miller, who became employee number 5, was involved in creating the prototype.
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Colson Whitehead Interview
“It started with a dream. I had houseguests and I heard them in the living room making breakfast one morning. I went back to sleep and dreamt that I wanted to go into the living room, but I wondered if…
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Zombies Meet Joy Division
More and more “serious” “literary” writers are turning to zombies, werewolves, and vampires for inspiration. This could be symptomatic of something dire or something hopeful in the world of writing. We could dither endlessly about the ramifications. But perhaps we…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/24 – 5/30
This week in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) kicks off, and this year with a new feature: New York Book Week–events that are open to the public. Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) discusses and serves up cocktails, Timothy Donnelly and…
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The Rumpus Red Carpet Report: The One Story Literary Debutante Ball
Four hundred writers and readers celebrated one of the country’s favorite journals. Where were you?