Episode · The Book Review · 2025-02-18
RaMell Ross on The Book Review: books mentioned
Director RaMell Ross on the Visual Wonder of ‘Nickel Boys’
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel depicting the brutal abuses suffered by teenage boys at a reform school in the Jim Crow-era American South.
Discussed“raml Ross is an artist a photographer and a filmmaker and his latest work nickelbys is an adaptation of Coulson whiteheads Pulitzer Prize winning novel the book and the movie both are about a pair of black boys wood and Turner who find themselves in a vicious reform school in 1960s Jim Crow South”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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”