I was standing at the corner of Ninety-third and Broadway, scanning an empty storefront for signs of literary activity, when Colson Whitehead texted: “Behind you.” It was a clear May afternoon.

One of the core pieces of creative writing advice is rebuffed by bestselling novelist and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead. “People say, ‘Write every day.’ That seems like a real imposition ...

(ANSA) - ROME, 02 OTT - The fifteenth edition of BookCity Milano kicks off with one of the biggest names in contemporary fiction: Colson Whitehead will be the guest at the opening event, taking place ...

This month, “Cool Machine,” a riff on 1980s New York in the form of a tightly plotted crime novel, arrives from Colson Whitehead. It concludes his Harlem trilogy, they say. If you’d told readers two ...

More than a decade after it first reached bookshelves, Colson Whitehead's Zone One is receiving another major honor. The acclaimed 2011 novel has been included on Pan Macmillan's list of the 50 best ...

A professional slight kicks off Colson Whitehead’s third crime caper. Harlem merchant Ray Carney has just wrapped up an interview with a furniture magazine he adores when he’s called downtown to meet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad has been ranked No. 1 on the list of the 10 Greatest Books of the Last 20 Years, ...

This is the What We’re Reading newsletter, featuring book recommendations from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Nineteen-sixties Harlem comes alive in the opener of ...

July 7 was a refreshingly cool day for summer in New York City. Morning showers made way for a partly cloudy afternoon, the ideal weather for walking among skyscrapers and marveling at such a ...

Like William Kennedy, who founded the New York State Writers Institute, the novelist Colson Whitehead is a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, aka the "genius" grant, for his literary imagination and ...