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Muldoon’s Picnic: Colson Whitehead

“Rule No. 10: Revise, revise, revise. I cannot stress this enough. Revision is when you do what you should have done the first time, but didn’t.” Colson Whitehead, whose seventh novel, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, 2019), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads his 2012 New York Times piece “How to Write” at the Muldoon’s Picnic variety show in New York City in 2015.

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Colson Whitehead
Page One
July/August 2019
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How to Write
Muldoon's Picnic
New York Times Book Review
2015
2012

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