"The Nickel Boys," A Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel By Colson Whitehead, One Of Only Four Writers To Win A Pulitzer Twice

 

                "We Invent All Sorts Of Different Ways To Hate People"              

"The Nickel Boys" - Wikipedia:   

The Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nickel_Boys     

The Movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Boys

Here is a 22 page "Nickel Boy" excerpt, starting with the prologue. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nickel_Boys_Winner_2020_Pulitzer_Pri/aDdyDwAAQBAJ

The New Yorker's long-time book reviewer, Richard Brody, thinks that the Oscar-nominated movie version of "The Nickel Boys" was the best movie of 2024  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/the-best-movies-of-2024

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Book by Book

An Interview with Colson Whitehead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXkBdqT5ck

Colson Whitehead's Wikipedia Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead

I have recorded an excerpt from "The Nickel Boys" which I will post here as soon as I figure out how to transfer it from iPhone "Voice Memos" to this blog post.

My recording (motivated by Colson's reference to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr's quotation about "loving our enemies,  no matter what") concludes with a digression-sermonette about Mahatma Gandhi, whose framed portrait was the only picture hanging in Martin and Coretta's Atlanta dining room. 

Colson Whitehouse

WikiQuote

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead#

"I Carry It Within Me." Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America's Racist History Lives On

https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/

The Underground Railroad

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(novel)

In 2019, The Underground Railroad was ranked 30th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.^[19] The novel was voted the greatest of its decade in Paste and was third place (along with Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad) in a list by Literary Hub.^[20]