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By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Who We Are Now: A Conversation with Colson Whitehead

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:30:16 +0000

[...] (April 24, 2009); in the New York Review of Books (after Apex Hides the Hurt in 2006); on the Bat Segundo Show (2006): 45 minute podcast; with Powell’s (after John Henry Days, 2001); with Salon (after The [...]

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:00:53 +0000

By: Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » 75 Books, Books #55-60

Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » 75 Books, Books #55-60 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:18:14 +0000

[...] Book #55 was a reread of Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist. I had read this book at the turn of the century, which seemed fitting given this novel’s preoccupation with the 20th, and marveled then at how Whitehead’s use of language served as a skeleton key that sometimes opened doors containing keen observations about racism and sexism. Now that I’m dwelling upon my reread at year’s end, I’m thinking that if Tom LeClair can categorize the early work of Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace as “prodigious fiction,” perhaps Colson Whitehead might be part of a second wave of “prodigious fiction” — a list that might also include Scarlett Thomas. Certainly, taxonomy is as much of a concern in The Intuitionist as it is to this hypothetical “first wave,” particularly the propriety (or lack thereof) we see with the two warring schools of elevator inspectors: the Intuitionists and the Empiricists. But I believe Whitehead is more concerned with how this arranged information affects existence, as opposed to how it is contained within existence, of which more anon. (Podcast interview.) [...]

By: Pad

Pad — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:52:26 +0000

Love this interview…. Colson Whitehead is great