Thursday, December 4, 2008
Books Walking and Talking with Colson Whitehead
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Colson Whitehead, who I will always take an opportunity to gush about, is getting ready to release a new novel called Sag Harbor. It's going to be his most autobiographical novel to date. He read a piece of it earlier this year at Seattle Arts & Lectures, which I reported on here.
Here is video of him talking about Sag Harbor and Sag Harbor.
I love him so much I might have to recuse myself from reviewing his next book for fear of humping it to death.
(Via Black Garterbelt.)
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I don't really like the term "autobiographical novel." Shouldn't we just call it memoir at that point?
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I don't know the demographics, but having visited Sag Harbor and the area around it each year for the last 10 years, I'm not sure I've ever seen a black person there. :/ or ?:Z
I'd put a dollar down that he just showed up in Sag Harbor, the locals saw him and started filming (whoa, a black dude! or whoa, a black dude, watch his every move...), then he started with his book talk , picked up the clips off You Tube and edited it all together.
I'd put a dollar down that he just showed up in Sag Harbor, the locals saw him and started filming (whoa, a black dude! or whoa, a black dude, watch his every move...), then he started with his book talk , picked up the clips off You Tube and edited it all together.
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I'd put a dollar down he has fictionalized the real black seaside colony at Oak Bluffs, MA in a new setting, and he's spoofing us all on You Tube.
I do not think AA families in NYC in that era paid $50-75,000 in rent for summer homes in Sag Harbor, or anywhere out on Long island for that matter, nor did they let their teenage kids hang out there all week without the parents.
And wtf w/ no dead bodies all summer? Hardly worth writing about.
I do not think AA families in NYC in that era paid $50-75,000 in rent for summer homes in Sag Harbor, or anywhere out on Long island for that matter, nor did they let their teenage kids hang out there all week without the parents.
And wtf w/ no dead bodies all summer? Hardly worth writing about.
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My god. Even the New York Times is in on it. They've fabricated names, and dates, and invented books and authors to cite. It's like a Borges story come to life.
My god. Even the New York Times is in on it. They've fabricated names, and dates, and invented books and authors to cite. It's like a Borges story come to life.
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I love Whitehead too, and feel that he has as of yet done no wrong in his literary career. But Paul, when has an overly loving (or overly hateful) prior opinion ever stopped a Stranger staffer from writing a review?
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Maybenot & PC (great name for a racist!),
Put down your Coors Lights, walk out of Murph's Tavern and make a right on 114. Go 3/4 of a mile and make a left into any one of the next 5 streets. You will see black people there. Lots of them. People who pay $50-75,000 for a summer home.
I've spent the last 22 summers in Sag Harbor. I was there in 1987 goofing around with a group of black boys whose parents where working in the city. One of the boys was a skinny kid with glasses named Chip Whitehead.
You each owe me a dollar.
Put down your Coors Lights, walk out of Murph's Tavern and make a right on 114. Go 3/4 of a mile and make a left into any one of the next 5 streets. You will see black people there. Lots of them. People who pay $50-75,000 for a summer home.
I've spent the last 22 summers in Sag Harbor. I was there in 1987 goofing around with a group of black boys whose parents where working in the city. One of the boys was a skinny kid with glasses named Chip Whitehead.
You each owe me a dollar.
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