Colson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle'

The Book Review

The New York Times

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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses “The Magician.”

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0:00.0	What's the great appeal of a high story?
0:12.3	Colson Whitehead joins us to talk about his new novel, Harlem Shuffle.
0:18.9	Why write a novel about the novelist Thomas Mann?
0:22.9	Call him to me and it will be here to talk about the magician.
0:27.5	Alexander Altar will tell us what's new in publishing news.
0:31.0	Plus, my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading.
0:35.6	This is the Booker View Podcast from the New York Times.
0:38.4	It's September 17th.
0:40.0	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:45.2	Colson Whitehead joins us now from Manhattan.
0:48.0	His latest novel is Harlem Shuffle.
0:50.7	Welcome back to the podcast, Colson.
0:52.3	Glad to be back.
0:53.3	I think this is your third time here.
0:55.3	Third time's a charm.
0:57.3	The other ones were so disastrous.
0:58.8	That's right.
0:59.8	We'll fix things.
1:00.8	Well, this is actually a really different novel from the two most recent ones that you're
1:04.0	coming off of.
1:05.3	It is like the other two.
1:07.3	I guess you would call it historical.
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