Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy
David Remnick interviews Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto, discussing his genre-bending fiction, research methods, and the moral complexity of his characters, particularly Ray Carney, a furniture salesman with a criminal side hustle
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