Poets & Writers Theater
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“The Nickel Academy becomes a proving ground for people’s goodness, for their tendency towards evil, and it proves character,” says Colson Whitehead about his latest novel, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, 2019), in this video for the Get Lit virtual book club series with host of WNYC’s All Of It Alison Stewart.
Tags: Fiction | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | Doubleday | 2019 | WNYC | book club | 2020 | interview -
“You pick the right tool for the job, and sometimes fantasy is a way to open up a story and convey a universal truth, and sometimes realism.” Colson Whitehead speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about his writing process and the true story that inspired his latest novel, The Nickel Boys, which was published this week by Doubleday.
Tags: Fiction | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | Doubleday | 2019 | Page One | July/August 2019 | PBS NewsHour | interview | writing process
