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Colson Whitehead

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[Memoir]

Loving Las Vegas

What the prudes get wrong about Sin City

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[Readings]

Last Night

An excerpt from the novel Zone One, which was published in October 2011 by Doubleday. On Last Night, the sprinkler had pivoted and dispensed in its prescribed arc on Mark…

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[Fiction]

The great reboot

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[Readings]

Wow, Fiction Works!

By Colson Whitehead, from “James Root on How to Read,” part of a talk delivered last July at the Tin House Writers Workshop, in Portland, Oregon. Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fourth…

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Down in front

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