After penning the Pulitzer Prize–winning novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, American author Colson Whitehead set out to write a trilogy of stories centred on a furniture salesman-turned-crook named Ray Carney. The first in the series, Harlem Shuffle, is a hugely entertaining tale of race, power and th

[REBROADCAST FROM September 14, 2021] Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s Harlem. 'Harlem Shuffle' with Colson Whitehead

DESCRIPTION Adam talks with American writer Colson Whitehead, whose novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys made him only the fourth writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, about writing routines, anxiety management and the challenges of trying to look on the positive side of life, litera

Whitehead's new novel 'Harlem Shuffle,' is about a furniture store owner in Harlem whose sideline is fencing stolen goods. Whitehead won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'The Underground Railroad,' about a 15-year-old enslaved girl who escapes a brutal Georgia plantation. The novel was adapted into a TV series that is no

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead joins us to discuss his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, a family drama and crime novel set in 1960s Harlem. Colson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle'

“If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill-gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap-charge in his blood like he’d plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around,” writes Colson Whitehead in his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle.” “Dizzying and powerful as it was. Everyone had secret corne