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Colson Whitehead: Selected Primary Sources Whitehead, Colson. Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel. Doubleday, 2006. ---. “Author’s Note: Operators Are Standing By.” New York Times Book Review, 13 March 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/operators-are-standing- by.html. ---. “Better than Renting out a Windowless Room: The Blessed Distraction of Technology.” Publishers Weekly, 25 April 2011, publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and- blogs/soapbox/article/46938-better-than-renting-out-a-windowless-room-the-blessed- distraction-of-technology.html. ---. The Colossus of New York. Doubleday, 2003. ---. “Don’t You Be My Neighbor: Colson Whitehead Laments the Latest Death of Brooklyn at the Hands of Developers but Says We All Practice Forms of Eminent Domain.” New York, 3 May 2004, nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/. ---. “Down in Front.” Granta, 1 July 2004. ---. “Flava of the Month: At the Chateau Marmont with Margaret B. Jones, L.A.’s Memoirist of Gang Life.” New York, 21 April 2008, nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/46204/. ---. “The Great Reboot.” Harper’s, June 2009, pp. 38-39. ---. “Hard Times in the Uncanny Valley: Exiting the Orbit and Leaving the Eye, the Legacy of the London Olympics.” Grantland, 24 Aug. 2012, grantland.com/features/colson- whitehead-olympics/ ---. The Intuitionist: A Novel. Anchor, 1999. ---. John Henry Days: A Novel. Doubleday, 2001. ---. “Last Night” [excerpt from Zone One]. Harper’s, July 2011, harpers.org/archive/2011/07/last-night/. ---. “Loving Las Vegas: What the Prudes Get Wrong about Sin City.” Harper’s, December 2013, https://harpers.org/archive/2013/12/loving-las-vegas/, reprinted in Best American Travel Writing 2014. Eds. Paul Theroux and Jason Wilson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. ---. The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death. Doubleday, 2014. ---. “Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia.” Grantland, 19 May 2013, grantland.com/features/parts-1-4/. ---. “A Psychotronic Childhood: Learning from B-Movies.” The New Yorker, 4 June 2011, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/a-psychotronic-childhood 2 ---. Sag Harbor. Doubleday, 2009. ---. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. Doubleday, 2016. ---. “The Underground Railroad.” Politics and Prose, 7 Oct. 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ukm1O2bobU. ---. “The Underground Railroad.” Talks at Google, 16 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIhqI5pPKBk. ---. “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01, Lost and Found.” The New York Times Magazine, 11 Nov. 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-11-11-01- lost-and-found.html?pagewanted=all. ---. “Wow, Fiction Works!” Harper’s, Feb. 2009, harpers.org/archive/2009/02/wow-fiction- works/. ---. Zone One: A Novel. Doubleday, 2011. Whitehead, Colson and Walter Mosley. “Eavesdropping.” Book, May 2001, p. 44. Compiled by Frank D. Rashid, Professor Emeritus of English .

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