with Colson Whitehead — Novelist
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Add to calendarA two-hour session on rationing research, timing your own readiness, and structure as a map of genres.
Thirty writers, each made to draw their novel as a map before lunch. Four people admitted their book was two books.
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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In conversationUpcomingThe Underground Railroad · Doubleday, 2016
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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Live recordingUpcomingThe Underground Railroad · Doubleday, 2016
with Colson Whitehead — Novelist
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017
Switching register between horror, satire and crime — and why he refuses to write the same book twice.
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