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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-Party. |
0:03.8 | My guest today is a genius, a MacArthur genius, and a literary genius, a two-time winner |
0:11.0 | of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
0:13.4 | And now he's the author of Crook Manifesto, the second installment of his Harlem Trilogy |
0:18.8 | and the sequel to his terrific 2021 book, Harlem Shuffle. |
0:23.7 | He is Colson Whitehead. |
0:26.4 | In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post Live on July 20th, the revered writer |
0:31.6 | talks about why the trilogy, set in Harlem, is a departure from what he'd written before, |
0:37.4 | and how Crook Manifesto still reflects his style of grounding his novels and critiques of |
0:42.6 | how we live and how we treat each other. |
0:45.4 | But the best part comes when I ask Colson Whitehead if there is a period or theme that |
0:50.6 | he hasn't written about that would love to dive into. |
0:54.8 | The answer was Romance Novel. |
0:57.6 | What he's using for research was literally laugh out loud funny. |
1:05.1 | Before we even get into the book, I have to tell you that as a political science nerd, |
1:11.4 | I don't read fiction. |
1:13.0 | I read history and I read political books until I got to, until someone said, read underground |
1:19.9 | railroad. |
1:21.2 | And then next thing I knew, I've got stacks of your books on my bedside table. |
1:25.9 | So just by saying that your reaction to pulling me over to the other side, to embracing fiction. |
1:36.1 | Well, you know, I write different kinds of stories. |
1:40.8 | I have a zombie story, I have historical fiction, and now I'm writing crime fiction. |
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