*if your dream is for softball to be rained out so you can see Colson Whitehead read from his new novel in person. So when somebody like Touré tries to turn him into a poster boy for a new era in race relations, Whitehead deflects it with a joke, and folds everything back into the story he was telling. He does this because he believes his fiction is the real thing, and he won’t let his biography or his coverage in the press obscure his fiction. Surely this is exciting news, the return of the good gumbo. He deflects all questions about whether his work is autobiographical, or whether he represents a new, post-black era in American culture. CROOK MANIFESTO, the second book in the Harlem Trilogy, will be published on July 18th, 2023. But another reason why he kicks ass is because he lets his fiction speak for itself. The man is a precise and affecting writer. We promise to stop talking about Colson Whitehead for a while, right after we say this. Guess you had to be there. We laughed pretty hard. Which, of course, is a reference to Touré’s oddly political review of Sag Harboron the cover of last week’s The New York Times Book Review.

But most of all, it’s going to be a post-black time.” It’s going to be a fun time, it’s going to be an entertaining time. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan.

But we’ll tell you we were STOKED to see him read at Book Court last night.Īs he introduced himself he said something to the effect of, “I’m going to read from my new book, Sag Harbor. Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead 3.53 9,341 ratings1,397 reviews The year is 1985. We don’t need to tell you that Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor is an awesome book, since you can hear it from practically every book reviewer in America. Novel of the week: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Whiteheads story of 15-year-old Benji Coopers summer hanging with other middle-class, African-American kids.

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