Episode · The Book Review · 2025-02-18
Books mentioned on Director RaMell Ross on the Visual Wonder of ‘Nickel Boys’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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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“I think so you know Coulson white hit has written across genre he's written all different types of books and and there are many of his books that are more um stylistically ornate they're sort of postmodern you know with the underground railroads certainly and then with nickel boy he he really paired it back you know when he was”
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Passing The Underground Railroad
“I think so you know Coulson white hit has written across genre he's written all different types of books and and there are many of his books that are more um stylistically ornate they're sort of postmodern you know with the underground railroads certainly and then with nickel boy he he really paired it back”