with Colson Whitehead, Novelist
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Add to calendarWhitehead on the decision he sat on for sixteen years: what happens if the railroad is a railroad.
The clearest hour we have on premise. Also the night he told a student to stop researching and start writing, to applause.
A New Yorker who began as a television critic at The Village Voice, Whitehead sat on the premise of The Underground Railroad for sixteen years because he didn't believe he was ready to write it. He is one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice.
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WorkshopUpcomingThe Underground Railroad · Doubleday, 2016
with Colson Whitehead, Novelist
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017
A two hour session on rationing research, timing your own readiness, and structure as a map of genres.
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In conversationUpcomingHarlem Shuffle · Doubleday, 2021
with Colson Whitehead, Novelist
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017
How to research atrocity and stay functional: mornings only, notes not immersion, bad television afterwards.
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