Mixing It Up: Why I Write On Very Different Subjects

I can’t be dark all the time

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This morning I watched Christiane Amanpour interview two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Colson Whitehead. His new novel, Harlem Shuffle, is a crime novel, which is a huge break from his very powerful two previous books that dealt with very dark subjects, including racism and slavery. She asked him about his experiences of…