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Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Jun 2, 202600:23:54Society & Culture

The only living novelist with two Pulitzer Prizes talks about the crooked protagonist of his series—and how David Bowie influenced his approach to fiction.

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Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy is an episode from The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. The only living novelist with two Pulitzer Prizes talks about the crooked protagonist of his series—and how David Bowie...

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