Colson Whitehead. Photo: Chris Close
Presented by BookHampton and Guild Hall
Named a most anticipated book by The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, Vulture, Today.com, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, LitHub, and Bookriot.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author Colson Whitehead joins us to celebrate Cool Machine, the exuberant final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
Spanning the early 1980s, the novel follows Harlem businessman and fence Ray Carney as he is pulled back into the city’s shifting criminal landscape. In 1981, a desperate bid to secure a loan for his wife draws Carney into one last heist. By 1983, his volatile partner Pepper navigates the downtown art and club scene as a bodyguard. And in 1986, Carney risks everything to save his late cousin’s son, confronting the past he thought he’d left behind.
Moving across a transforming New York—from Harlem to Wall Street to the East Village—Cool Machine brings to life a city of ambition, danger, and reinvention.
The evening will include a solo lecture and audience Q&A.
Book signing to follow.
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Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
Photo: Chris Close
