# Colson Whitehead

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TBB Talks to ... Barry Jenkins creator of The Underground Railroad series

Barry Jenkins is a multi-award winning filmmaker who has become a much revered storyteller, especially by lovers of black narratives which push against expected stereotypes. So it may have come as a surprise to some when it was announced he'd adapted Colson Whitehead's critically acclaimed novel Th…

Electric Literature No.2 Audiobook by Stephen O'Connor

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Electric Literature No.2Series: #2 in Electric LiteratureCategories: Collection, FictionAuthor: Stephen O'ConnorNarrator: Matthew KorahaisPublisher: Electric Literature, LLCRelease date: 02-24-2010Language: EnglishSummary:Electri…

Electric Literature Aloud! Audiobook by Aimee Bender

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Electric Literature Aloud!Subtitle: 10 Short Stories from America's Best WritersSeries: #1 (2-3) in Electric LiteratureCategories: Collection, FictionAuthor: Aimee BenderNarrator: Katya Schapiro, Matthew KorahaisPublisher: Electr…

Oprah’s Greatest Conversations with Authors: 30 Years of Oprah’s Book Club

BUY THE BOOKS! The Oprah Book Club storefront https://amzn.to/4j5y1xW In this special bonus episode Oprah celebrates the 30th anniversary of Oprah’s Book Club and reflects on how her lifelong love of reading became a cultural phenomenon. Oprah revisits some of her most treasured conversations with…

The Invisible Work of Literary Agents featuring Laura B. McGrath (13)

This week, Laura B. McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and author of MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, joins us to discuss the often overlooked but powerful role of literary agents in shaping the publishing industry and even the American litera…

New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins

Incarceration, possibility and punishment in fiction. Historian Ethan Blue and commentator Mark Sutton join Cassie and Kate to discuss new fiction from Colson Whitehead (The Nickel Boys), Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous) and Sarah Hopkins (The Subjects)

Colson Whitehead’s lifelong love affair with New York

The criminal underworld of 1980s New York City. The last heist of a mostly-retired crook. A city battling for its future. Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy reaches its conclusion with his latest novel, Cool Machine. It follows Ray Carney, a former criminal who's gone mostly straight in his middle a…

Listening to Contemporary Fiction

Host Jo Reed and contributor Leslie Fine discuss three new works of fiction that take listeners from 1980s New York to midcentury Florida and, finally, to a complicated homecoming in the present-day Adirondacks. Dion Graham returns to Ray Carney’s world in Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, bringing …

Hernan Diaz on PLY

In Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz's Ply, centuries from now, society has adapted to a new way of life as humans mend their relationships to the world…and each other. Hernan joined us live in Philadelphia to talk about subjectivity, selfhood and identity; particle physics; and Charles Dic…

The beauty of repeating a single note with Martha Anne Toll

Martha Anne Toll has lived a musical life. She was raised with siblings who formed a family string quartet, studied with a world class teacher for viola, and spent countless hours perfecting the singular notes that, collectively, make beautiful music. In addition to music, Martha has a love of book…