Colson Whitehead

From elevator inspectors to championship poker to an epic of escape from bondage, Colson Whitehead likes to write about outsiders. In this episode the author talks with Miwa Messer about his incredibly varied career (don't forget the zombies!) and how his award-winning bestseller (and 2016 Oprah's Book Club pick) The Underground Railroad went from idea to the page.

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We're no longer producing new episodes of this show, but you can find us now at Poured Over on Apple Podcasts. Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today's most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about.