Colson Whitehead: Harlem Through a Kaleidoscope

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Double Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead is one of the most admired US writers of this century. He’s back in Edinburgh with the second in a series of crime novels set in New York in the 1960s and 70s. Crook Manifesto is a fabulously entertaining story evoking Harlem in all its seedy glory. In conversation with Jess Brough.

Categories: Crime/Thriller, Fiction, World Voices

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Transatlantic Encounters

Transatlantic Encounters at the Edinburgh International Book Festival will feature a stellar line up of American and US-based authors – highlighting the diversity of thought and creativity of the United States. Reflecting on a range of literary work, each author will offer a unique and free-thinking perspective on what it means to be a citizen in the United States, how their work reflects their lived experience of America, and their relationship to the rest of the world…