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"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead

Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction

“[A] potent, almost hallucinatory novel... It possesses the chilling matter-of-fact power of the slave narratives collected by the Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s, with echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and brush strokes borrowed from Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and Jonathan Swift…He has told a story essential to our understanding of the American past and the American present.”
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Enjoy listening to an interview of Colson Whitehead by Terry Gross of NPR’s “Fresh Air” which aired August 8, 2016.

March 28, 2017 (Tuesday)
12:00-1:00 PM
REMSEN CONFERENCE ROOM 4D44
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