![]() ![]() And so the main guy in this one study reupholstered furniture. When I was reading these sociological studies of fences, one thing that was made apparent very early was that they often have fronts, front stores. can I do that?"Īuthor Interviews When Zombies Attack Lower Manhattan "I was just thinking about how much I like heist movies and thinking how much fun the directors and writers must have put it all together," he says. Whitehead says inspiration for the story came to him a few years back, when he was deciding on a movie to watch. Carney owns a furniture store on 125th Street in Harlem, but he has a sideline trafficking in stolen goods. In Whitehead's novel, the main character, Ray Carney, is that wall. a sociological a study about these guys in the Midwest in the '60s, and one of the first things that struck me was their description of being a wall between the straight world and the crooked world." "There's not a lot of literature about fences," Whitehead says. For his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, that meant learning how stolen items get "fenced." ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead does extensive background research whenever he works on a book. Colson Whitehead was awarded Pulitzer Prizes for his last two novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. ![]()
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