Colson Whitehead attends the table in 2016 underground RailroadA work of fictional historical fiction in which enslaved people use a real railroad running beneath the South to escape to freedom. The novel is one of only eight books to win both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. When Whitehead wins the
IIn the summer of 1977 a lightning strike struck a substation on the Hudson River, knocking out power throughout New York City. A wave of looting spread over two nights of darkness as teenagers from Harlem and the Bronx stole expensive items from downtown stores. They took the speaker system and turntables to experiment at
NPR’s Ayesha Rasco talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead about his new book, “Cool Machine.”
I regret to tell you that I will have to keep this introduction brief. Not because there’s any shortage of things to say about July’s notable new releases; It includes many different flavors of award-winning journalists and writers of concern about our bleak ecological future and data-dominated present, as well as welcoming several beloved novelists.