Alex Ross: Alan Gilbert takes over at the New York Philharmonic. Oct 13, 2009
Alan Gilbert takes over the New York Philharmonic : The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Significant Objects Oct 10, 2009
They matched the objects with writersNicholson Baker, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Colson Whitehead, among othersand asked them to write short, fictional stories about them. Glenn and Walker then put the objects up for sale on eBay along with the stories explaining their significance. (Slate)
Travel Briefs Oct 9, 2009
Other famous authors expected to participate include James Patterson, Marilynne Robinson, Judy Blume, John Grisham, Junot Diaz, Colson Whitehead, Jeannette Walls and Julia Glass. The event, organized by the Library of Congress and held on the National Mall, is free. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing Sep 24, 2009
Books on the Mall: The ninth National Book Festival will be Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Among the more than 70 authors attending: James Patterson, John Grisham, John Irving, Walter Mosley, Rick Riordan, Jodi Picoult, David Wroblewski, Julia Alvarez, Colson Whitehead and Junot Diaz. The festival's organizer, the Library of Congress, is employing digital technology to update book lovers, including Twitter, text messages and a Facebook page. (USA Today -- Life)
Former First Lady Laura Bush Announces the Blockbuster Author Line-Up for the 2009 Texas Book Festival Sep 4, 2009
Incredible writers such as Sandra Brown, Oscar Casares, Kurt Eichenwald, Blake Bailey, Colson Whitehead, David Wroblewski, and Amanda Eyre Ward will appear at this year's Festival. Other prominent authors attending are Luis Alberto Urrea, Jane Smiley, Harold Evans, Kati Marton, Julia Glass, Gail Collins, and Harold Kushner. (PR Newswire)
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Aug 18, 2009
Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor is a sentimental, semi-autobiographical remembrance of things past; through the eyes of a young prep in his final summer of innocence. Long before America's First Family, in particular America's first African American First Family chose to holiday in the exclusive, predominantly white beach community of Martha's Vineyard; a young African American prep school student named Benji Cooper (who may or may not have been novelist Colson Whitehead) and his family whiled... (Suite101.com)
Life in the Big Apple Jul 1, 2009
Nowhere else could you see [street artist] Swoon artworks in your neighborhood, take the subway to a Colson Whitehead reading, have dinner at a place like , then go hear "TV on the Radio" on their home turf. The sheer variety of great things to do here is electrifying. (CNN -- International)
Music Reviews Jun 16, 2009
Not Colson Whitehead, as full of surprises as ever, in what he calls "my autobiographical fourth novel." FIND MORE STORIES IN. 19d ago Among this week's picks are a ghost story, a shoot-'em-up, a dark coming-of-age novel and a re-imagining of Virginia Woolf's relationship with her sister. (USA Today -- Life)
Colson Whitehead returns to his teen years in 'Sag Harbor' Jun 2, 2009
Colson Whitehead returns to his teen years in 'Sag Harbor ... Novelist Colson Whitehead spent the summer he was 15 in Sag Harbor ... Sag HarborBy Colson WhiteheadDoubleday, 273 pp. (USA Today -- Life)
TONIGHT Book Signing at St. Louis City Library May 15, 2009
Left Bank Books and the Young Literati of the St. Louis Public Library will host a book signing for Pulitzer Finalist, author Colson Whitehead. The event will be held this Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at Central Library, 1301 Olive St., St Louis. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Three to See May 5, 2009
Colson Whitehead burst onto the literary scene a decade ago with his first novel, "The Intuitionist," an otherworldly tale of race and intrigue in a city resembling New York that critics compared favorably with Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man.". Young, gifted, and black, Whitehead (above) followed that sparkling debut with several more well-received books, including "The Colossus of New York," a collection of essays paying homage to his home city, and the follow-up novels "John Henry Days" and... (Boston Globe)
Author readings, book signings in Greater Boston May 3, 2009
Colson Whitehead reads from "Sag Harbor," 7 p.m., Porter Square Books. Laurie King ("The Language of Bees") and Leslie Klinger ("The Annotated Sherlock Holmes") speak at 7 p.m., Harvard Square Coop. (Boston Globe)
