![]() ![]() Whitehead - a formidable presence even virtually, delivering uncomfortable truths before chuckling at how bleak they sound when said aloud - had the idea for Harlem Shuffle in 2014. We get better by small degrees, and maybe that’s all we can really hope for “You find out stuff like that and it becomes part of the lore of the characters’ lives.” “I’d never been to Marcus Garvey Park but it was a big place for dumping bodies if you were a gangster,” he tells me on a Zoom call from his holiday home on Long Island, where he spends time with his wife, Julie Barer, a literary agent, and their two children. ![]() There, the 51-year-old discovered that even he, born and raised and still resident in Manhattan, could still be surprised by New York City. In order to flesh out his protagonist, Whitehead, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine in2019, headline “America’s Storyteller”, walked the streets of Harlem. Harlem Shuffle, which comes out this autumn, follows furniture salesman Ray Carney through three decades and three crimes, as his crooked side-hustle as a fence for stolen goods takes over his life. In 2019, Colson Whitehead, the author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, decided to realise a long-held ambition and write a crime caper. ![]()
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