Highly recommended--New Yorker interview of Colson Whitehead.

Highly recommended--New Yorker interview of writer Colson Whitehead.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/29/colson-whitehead-profile

I really must read Underground Railroad.

The is a good e.g. of how real writers fictionalize their family and themselves.

Incidentally, 2 writerly friends of mine

1. a poet--is writing about his father

and 2. a village expert--is attempting to write about her mother.

Also,oddly enough, 2 sightings of 1987 stock market crash--

1. in Alan Greenspan obit

2, in this article--where interviewer learns Colson's father was affected by stock market crash and "never recovered.

--about alcoholism, my novella Black Rice touches on my Kamayut extended family, "drunkard father and over-eating mother"

--about stock market crashes, I never had any stock and so was not affected.

affected by other things, --

--about Harlem Renaissance--my Boulder Friend knew Langston Hughes.

Kaung

6-23-2026