Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Colson Whitehead and His Crime Novel Sequel
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Crook Manifesto
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead is a gritty, atmospheric crime novel and a direct sequel to Harlem Shuffle, following its protagonist through the turbulent criminal underworld of 1970s New York.
Recommended“thank you so much for coming once again on to the book riew podcast to talk about your new book my pleasure that was my conversation with Coulson Whitehead author of the new novel crook Manifesto”
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Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead is a richly textured historical crime novel set in 1960s New York that follows a furniture salesman navigating the criminal underworld while trying to maintain his respectability.
Discussed“the 125th Street of Harlem Shuffle is gone because now Nike stores and Shake Shack and GAP and Magic Johnson theaters”
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead is a powerful historical novel depicting two Black teenagers confined to a brutal and corrupt reform school in the 1960s Jim Crow South.
Discussed“but the nickel boys just seemed like the best followup for me intellectually after the Underground Railroad so it was it real relief to be able to tell jokes again and have fun with conventions in a way have a sense of play which due to the subject matter of the nickel boys and Underground Railroad I couldn't do before”
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel that reimagines the antebellum South by turning the secret network of abolitionist routes into a literal subterranean railway system utilized by an enslaved woman named Cora seeking freedom.
Discussed“but the nickel boys just seemed like the best followup for me intellectually after the Underground Railroad so it was it real relief to be able to tell jokes again and have fun with conventions in a way have a sense of play which due to the subject matter of the nickel boys and Underground Railroad I couldn't do before”
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The intuitionist
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead is a distinctive debut novel that blends municipal politics, architectural intrigue, and magical realism around the life of a pioneering elevator inspector.
Discussed“I am generally sick of whatever I just finished my first book The intuitionist has a main character Lila May Watson who's very controlled and very repressed the plot is very linear it takes after detective novels”
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The hot rock
Discussed“have you ever seen the movie The Hot Rock I saw it as a kid and then last summer finally saw it as a grown-up and I started the book but couldn't get through the book so it's a movie starring Robert Redford it's directed by Peter Yates who directed bullet bullet and George seagull is in it I was”
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Serpico
Discussed“so going to the non-fiction book that Sero was based on by Peter Moss going to The Nap commission report which is basically a map to corruption”
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The Colossus of New York
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead is a lyrical, evocative collection of essays that captures the pulsating rhythm, complexity, and emotional resonance of New York City.
Recommended“so this was a piece that was published a month after the Attacks of September 11th at the New York Times magazine and was later collected in a book of yours the Colossus of New York”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“white heads pulitzers were for the historical novels the Underground Railroad and the nickel boys”
“white heads pulitzers were for the historical novels the Underground Railroad and the nickel boys”
“he's back with crooked Manifesto a sequel to his novel Harlem Shuffle”