After much time and effort, the Tucker-Boatwright Committee and the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Search Committee have exciting news to report. Colson Whitehead will be the distinguished writer in residence at the University of Richmond in fall 2009. He has published four novels: The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, The Colossus of New York, and Apex Hides the Hurt. His fifth novel, Sag Harbor, is forthcoming next year. The Intuitionist won the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. John Henry Days won the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Harper’s, The Village Voice, Salon, and Newsday. The recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Award" Fellowship and the Whiting Writers Award, Whitehead is a visiting professor at Princeton this fall. He has taught creative writing at Columbia, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and the University of Houston.
Brothers, I hope we can read and discuss one of this guy's books at one of our meetings while he's in town. We'll discuss it one way or the other, but it's a valuable experience, and at the very least, we can likely hook up and take him to Cafe Guttenberg to chat with him afterwards, since having him at an actual meeting might be a bit uncomfortable.
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The titles sound interesting. However, as with movies, you never know. Bert, I'm sure you will nominate one.
ReplyDeleteLet me just say, in my mix of high society Victorian English and semi-contemporary Negro urban speak, that the prospect of holdin' it down at some chill spot with eats with you chaps is a monster don move to the fullest. (Oh dear, couldn't find any opportunity to add a Snoop Dogg izzle to the mix, my ghetto pass is starting to wither before my eyes)
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