Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Arts, Books

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new novel, and Jon Gertner talks about “The Ice at the End of the World.”

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0:00.0	How do you follow the Underground Railroad, a groundbreaking genre-bending Pulitzer Prize-winning
0:10.7	novel?
0:11.7	Coulson Whitehead will be here to talk about his new book, The Nickel Boys.
0:16.2	What can we learn about Earth's future from a visit to Greenland?
0:19.2	John Gertner will be here to talk about his book, The Ice at the End of the World.
0:23.6	Alexander Altair will give us an update from the publishing world.
0:26.6	Plus, our critics will talk about the latest in literary criticism.
0:30.4	This is the Book Review Podcast for The New York Times.
0:32.9	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:43.9	Coulson Whitehead is here in the studio to talk about his new novel, The Nickel Boys.
0:48.8	Coulson, we meet again.
0:50.0	How do you do?
0:51.0	How do you do?
0:52.0	You are here for your last little novel, a book called The Underground Railroad, which
0:56.6	met with some success of Pulitzer.
0:58.6	That was very special.
0:59.6	It was very glad.
1:00.6	The National Book Award, Oprah Book Club pick, Barry Jenkins is turning it into a mini-series.
1:05.1	Is that something happening?
1:06.1	Yeah, they're shooting next month, August.
1:08.6	Are you going to be on the set?
1:10.1	I'm traveling, but if they're still going into October, I'd love to.
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