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February 29, 2008

So all this time we've been talking about a transference issue?

My piece on Brooklyn is up.

It contains a sort-of reference to the unfinished killer Google app, the Google Superego. It will be quite handy. When you’re out late and say to yourself, “I’ll have another pint before I go home,” the Google Superego pops up and goes, Did you mean: Go home right now? When you think to yourself, “There’s a twelve hour Top Chef marathon on Bravo and I’m going to watch it,” the Google Superego pops up and goes, Did you mean: Read a book and tell your family how much you love them?

Hurry up, Google.

Posted by Colson Whitehead

February 02, 2008

Rain Gray Town. Known For Its Sound.

So, I handed the book in. It will be published by Doubleday in April of 2009, it looks like. It’s a love story set on the cusp of the Russian Revolution. There are a lot of white people in it, so I had to do great amounts of research because I was writing “outside of my experience.” Basically, I watched a lot of “Golden Girls.” And it worked out!

I have three readings coming up.

February 8th at Pianos for One Story’s reading series.

February 20th at Rutgers University.

March 25th at Pacific Standard with Christopher Sorrentino

I'm only reading new stuff these days ("The Tsar has dimissed the Duma! The Tsar has dismissed the Duma!"). It's fun and easy to do!

That's the way it is!

Posted by Colson Whitehead