21. Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist Review by Robin Brenner in Rambles.Category Arts Literature Authors W whitehead, colson......colson whitehead, The Intuitionist (Anchor Books, 1999). Creating excellentfantasy and science fiction seems to me a tricky business. http://www.rambles.net/whitehead_intuit.html

Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist (Anchor Books, 1999) Creating excellent fantasy and science fiction seems to me a tricky business. There are so many places one's imagination can go that it's difficult to rein it in and create a convincing other, whether it be an entire world or a set of speculative circumstances. I've come to feel the most affecting visions in fantasy and science fiction are those that are closest to what I know in the present world. If a writer merely tweaks my present (or my past or my near future) I'm more likely to form an immediate and powerful connection to that new place. The most intriguing of these "what if" scenarios must be, of course, well-written and well-plotted, but they must also feel close enough to my experiences to strike a chord of recognition. That's a difficult thing to capture, and even more difficult to successfully evoke. I've often thought this is why precious few stellar science fiction or fantasy films have been made, despite numerous attempts. The pinnacle of all such films remains, in my mind, Ridley Scott's cyberpunk masterpiece, Blade Runner . Of course, Philip K. Dick's novel

22. The MacArthur Fellows Program colson whitehead Novelist Unaffiliated Brooklyn, New York Age 32 Biographycolson whitehead received a BA (1991) from Harvard University. http://www.macfound.org/programs/fel/2002fellows/whitehead_colson.htm

The MacArthur Fellows Program Overview Frequently Asked Questions Program and Area Directors 2002 MacArthur Fellows Announced ... 2002 MacArthur Fellows Gallery Complete List of MacArthur Fellows 1981-2002 A-F G-K L-R S-Z ... by Class 2002 Fellows Full Biographies Bonnie Bassler Ann Blair Katherine Boo Paul Ginsparg ... Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead Novelist Unaffiliated Brooklyn, New York Age: 32 Colson Whitehead is a young fiction writer who has already published two well-received novels, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days . His first novel demonstrated his skill as an engaging storyteller and a bold experimental writer whose social and philosophical themes speak to the heart of American society. His more recent novel, John Henry Days , solidifies his position at the front ranks of the new generation of writers. This novel, about the life and myth of folk hero John Henry, is a complex, multilayered work of social commentary, folkloric analyses, historical criticism, and contemporary humor. It echoes and expands on the virtues of his first novel: original, descriptive prose, grand conception, each based on an African-American character surrounded by a threatening or potentially threatening white world. His range of characters and sweep of time are impressive, as are the beautifully rendered scenes illustrating the running theme of the individual’s freedom. While racial politics are central to John Henry Days , Whitehead shows how these issues affect everyone, regardless of race. The book, seemingly about the dilemma of race, is also about the dilemma of humanity. His willingness to take the intellectual risks necessary to expand the boundaries of contemporary writing characterizes his approach to fiction, foreshadowing further contributions to American literature.

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The MacArthur Fellows Program Overview Frequently Asked Questions Program and Area Directors 2002 MacArthur Fellows Announced ... 2002 MacArthur Fellows Gallery Complete List of MacArthur Fellows 1981-2002 A-F G-K L-R S-Z ... by Class 2002 Fellows Full Biographies Bonnie Bassler Ann Blair Katherine Boo Paul Ginsparg ... Colson Whitehead Complete List of MacArthur Fellows As of September 24, 2002, 635 Fellows have been named. MacArthur Fellows 1981 - 2002: Listing By Field The Arts Architecture Diller, Elizabeth Mockbee, Samuel Scofidio, Ricardo Choreography and Dance Blunden, Jeraldyne Brown, Trisha Cunningham, Merce Jones, Bill T. Lerman, Liz Marshall, Susan Mitchell, Arthur Morris, Mark Otake, Eiko and Koma Streb, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Tharp, Twyla Crafts and Design Bigelow, Charles A. Bing, Xu Maloof, Sam Van Vliet, Claire Wilson, Adrian Fiction Abish, Walter Barrett, Andrea Butler, Octavia Cantor, Jay

24. HoustonChronicle.com - 'John Henry Days' By Colson Whitehead March 15, 2002, 1239PM. John Henry Days By colson whitehead. Doubleday. Copyright© 2001 colson whitehead. All rights reserved. ISBN 0385-49819-5 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/ch1/1048276

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: Chapter One excerpts Current stories in Chapter One excerpts: 'The Autograph Man' by Zadie Smith 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan 'The Commissariat of Enlightenment' by Ken Kalfus 'Soul Circus' by George P. Pelecanos ... Printer-friendly format March 15, 2002, 12:39PM John Henry Days By Colson Whitehead Doubleday ISBN: 0-385-49819-5 Prologue HAVING SEEN YOUR advertisement in the Chicago Defender, I am answering your request for information, concerning the Old-Time Hero of the Big Bend Tunnel Days—or Mr. John Henry. I have succeeded in recalling and piecing together 13 verses, dedicated to such a splendid and deserving character of by gone days. It was necessary to interview a number of Old-Timers of the Penitentiary to get some of the missing words and verify my recollections; so I only hope it will please you, and be what you wish. In regards to the reality of John Henry, I would say he was a real live and powerful man, some 50 years ago, and actually died after beating a steam drill. His wife was a very small woman who loved John Henry with all her heart.

25. HoustonChronicle.com - 'John Henry Days' By Colson Whitehead Henry. By CRAIG D. LINDSEY. JOHN HENRY DAYS. By colson whitehead. Doubleday,$24.95. colson whitehead is one ambitious young dude. In http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/reviews/1047013

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: Book reviews Current stories in Book reviews: 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan 'What About the Kids' by Judith S. Wallerstein Watkins' perspective makes Enron book stand out 'The Commissariat of Enlightenment' by Ken Kalfus ... Printer-friendly format Sept. 14, 2001, 1:27PM Whitehead overfills plate with John Henry By CRAIG D. LINDSEY JOHN HENRY DAYS. By Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $24.95. COLSON Whitehead is one ambitious young dude. In his second novel, John Henry Days , the African-American writer throws a lot of things on the wall, hoping that if they don't all stick, at least they'll slide into consciousness for a while. Race, history, relationships, loss, idealism, folk legends, pop culture, music, the Internet, death that's just a fraction of the ingredients Whitehead mixes in this book. It's a novel that gives lengthy big-ups to both Paul Robeson and the Rolling Stones. Whitehead takes the still-debated myth of John Henry, the 19th-century steel-driving black man who dared to take on a steam-powered drill machine, and crafts an interconnected narrative of how the story affected people from a journalist in present-day West Virginia to a New York sheet-music writer circa 1910 to John Henry himself on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (that is, if he actually existed).

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Boo k s and ... Travel All Books Weems, Carrie Mae. And Andrea Kirsh and Susan Fisher Sterling. Carrie Mae Weems. Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1993. Very good in wrappers. $55. Wells, H.G. Experiment in Autobiography. New York: Macmillan Company, 1934. First Edition. Cloth, lacking dustjacket. Some browning to spine and rubbing to boards, else good. $24. Wells, H.G. Experiment in Autobiography. New York: Macmillan Company, 1934. First Edition. Cloth, lacking dustjacket. Reading copy. Front hinge cracked, covers soiled. $10. Wells, H.G. Mr. Blettsworthy On Rampole Island. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Very good in fair; dustjacket is worn, torn and tired. $55. Wells, H.G. The Croquet Player. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Very good in poor dustjacket. Owner's bookplate. $14. Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles. New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Very good in crisp dustjacket with one 1/3" tear, price-clipped. $13. Wentworth, Marion Craig.

28. Colson Whitehead Books - The Book Beat - SearchBeat.com covers colson whitehead Books plus online many more Fiction, NonFiction, Historybooks and anything and everything involving Books and Reading that is online. http://bookbeat.searchbeat.com/authors/whitehead.htm

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29. Voices Writing Workshop colson whitehead Session Two Novel colson comes the Voices Workshop with styleand substance and as a recent winner of the MacArthur Genius Award. http://www.vona-voices.org/colson.html

Colson Whitehead Session Two: Novel Colson comes the Voices Workshop with style and substance and as a recent winner of the MacArthur Genius Award. The author of two novels, The Intuitionist and John Henry Day, he has won the QPB New Voices Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and for the Pulitzer among other honors. The Colossus of New York, a volume of essays, will be published in the fall of 2003. Weeklong workshop where the structure and style of the novel are explored as a literary form and as a work of art. Writing a novel of substance and significance is informed by examining the particpants' works and developing a vision for the whole book. (June 29-July 5) Elmaz Abinader Junot Diaz Ruth Forman Diem Jones ... Gail Tsukiyama Colson Whitehead Saul Williams

30. The Intuitionist (in MARION) Author whitehead, colson, 1969. Author Fernandez, Peter Jay. narrator.Published Prince Frederick, Md. Recorded Books, p2000. http://axp.aacpl.net:8032/MARION/ABO-0544

The intuitionist Call Number: (COMPACT DISC) Fiction W Title: The intuitionist : [sound recording-CD] : a novel / by Colson Whitehead. Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Author: Fernandez, Peter Jay. narrator. Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2000. Subject: Afro-Americans Fiction Audiobooks (CD). Afro-American women Fiction Audiobooks (CD). Elevators Inspection Fiction Audiobooks (CD). Audiobooks (CD). ... Humorous stories. Audiobooks (CD). Material: 9 sound discs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital. 4 3/4 in. Note: An unabridged recording of the book. In container (18 cm.). "With tarcks every 3 minutes for easy book marking."Container. Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez. Lila Mae Watson the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Services. This upsets her superiors because she inspects them simply by the feelings she gets by riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, she becomes caught in a conflict. Issued also on cassette.

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The intuitionist Call Number: (CASS) Fiction (W) Title: The intuitionist : [sound recording] : a novel / by Colson Whitehead. Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Author: Fernandez, Peter Jay. Narrator. Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2000. Subject: Afro-Americans Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Afro-American women Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Elevators Inspection Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Audiobooks (Cassettes). ... Humorous stories. Audiobooks (Cassettes). Material: 7 sound cassettes (9 hr., 45 min.) : analog. Note: An unabridged recording of the book. In container (22 cm.). Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez. Lila Mae Watson the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Services. This upsets her superiors because she inspects them simply by the feelings she gets by riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, she becomes caught in a conflict. ISBN: Music Pub no: 96229 Recorded Books System ID no: ABL-9850 Holdings: Annapolis Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASSETTES) Fiction W Cass AudBk Available Broadneck Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASSETTES) Fiction W Cass AudBk Withdrawn Crofton Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASSETTES) Fiction W Cass AudBk Available Eastport Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASSETTES) Fiction W Cass AudBk Available Edgewater Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASSETTES) Fiction W Cass AudBk Withdrawn

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AALBC Home Author Index Back Author Home ... Buy Any Book Colson Whitehead Photo: Powells.com John Henry Days Click to order via Amazon or Barnes and Noble Format: Hardcover, 400pp. ISBN: Publisher: Vintage Anchor Publishing Pub. Date: May 2001 Edition Desc: 1 ED Whitehead’s novel, immortalizes the African American folk hero, "John Henry". Centered around the unveiling of a commemorative stamp to honor the former slave, the story combines, through multi-dimensions of characters and exploits, the dilemmas and dualities of man, machine, history, myth, popular culture and racism. Whitehead lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Intuitionist Click to order via Amazon or Barnes and Noble Format: Paperback, 272pp. ISBN: Publisher: Pub. Date: January 2000 The Intuitionist is a tale of race, mystery and suspense in a time and place that is similar to ours. Lila Mae Watson is the first black elevator inspector. When an elevator in the new government building, that Lila Mae inspected, falls, it is up to Lila Mae to discover what happened. Whitehead is another author that I have my eye on. The Intuitionist is a gem. Thumper, AALBC.com

34. New York State Writers Institute - Colson Whitehead Novelist and 2002 Pulitizer Prize Finalist colson whitehead October 17, 2002 (Thursday)415 pm Informal Seminar 800 pm Reading Both Recital Hall, PAC UAlbany http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/whitehead_colson.html

Novelist and 2002 Pulitizer Prize Finalist C OLSON W HITEHEAD October 17, 2002 (Thursday) 4:15 p.m. Informal Seminar 8:00 p.m. Reading Both Recital Hall, PAC UAlbany, Uptown Campus (photo credit: Natasha Stovall) Novelist Colson Whitehead was among the 24 winners of a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius award" for 2002. The awards, which were announced this September, are given to scholars, artists, and others to free them to pursue their work. The Foundation praised Whitehead's novels for their inventive plots that weave American folklore and history into the stoires. Colson Whitehead's multilayered second novel, John Henry Days (2001) juxtaposes the story of the 19 th century folk-hero John Henry, a black railroad worker who died in the act of defeating a steam drill in a contest, with J. Sutter, a modern-day hack journalist who is sent to cover a John Henry Day festival. Sutter is engaged in his own private contest to attend back-to-back press junkets for the free food and paid expenses. Praising the novel for exploring such dualities as legend and history, black and white, altruism and greed, and the machine age and the digital age, Booklist called it "masterfully composed and full of myth and magic."

35. George Saunders And Colson Whitehead MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2003. GEORGE SAUNDERS colson whitehead Alley Theater,615 Texas Avenue. 730 pm. Upon the release of George Saunders's http://www.inprint-inc.org/saunderswhitehead.htm

M ONDAY, J ANUARY 27, 2003 GEORGE SAUNDERS COLSON WHITEHEAD Alley Theater, 615 Texas Avenue 7:30 pm Upon the release of George Saunders's debut collection of stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a New York Times Notable BookGarrison Keillor called him "a brilliant satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride," and the reticent Thomas Pynchon described his work as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funnytelling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times." Time magazine called Saunders's second collection, Pastoralia also a New York Times Notable Book "screamingly funny." He is also the author of a bestselling children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip , illustrated by Lane Smith. Saunders, also a geophysical engineer, teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. One of the nation's leading young African-American novelists, Colson Whitehead won the QPB New Voices Award and was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist for his first book

36. ReadingGroupGuides.com - John Henry Days By Colson Whitehead John Henry Days A Novel by colson whitehead List Price $14.00 Pages400 Format Paperback ISBN 0385498209 Publisher Anchor Books. http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/john_henry_days1.asp

Anchor Books John Henry Days A Novel by Colson Whitehead List Price: Pages: Format: Paperback ISBN: Publisher: Anchor Books John Henry Days , Colson Whitehead builds upon this simple tale to create a contrapuntal masterpiece. The narrative revolves around J. Sutter, a young black journalist. Sutter is a "junketeer," a freeloading hack who roams from one publicity event to the next, abusing his expense account and meeting for biweekly sex with a publicist named Monica. It is 1996, and an assignment for a travel Web site takes Sutter to West Virginia for the first annual John Henry Days festival, a celebration of a new U.S. postage stamp honoring John Henry. And there, in a small rural town, the real story of John Henry emerges in graceful counterpoint to Sutter's thoroughly modern adventure. As Whitehead explores the parallels between the lives of these two men, and between the Industrial Age, which literally killed John Henry, and the Digital Age, which is destroying J. Sutter's soul, he also adds multiple dimensions to the myth of the steel-driving man. John Henry Days is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power that juxtaposes history with popular culture, the blatant bigotry of the past with the more insidious racism of the present, and laugh-out-loud humor with unforgettable poignancy.

37. The Onion A.V. Club | John Henry Days | Colson Whitehead With his debut novel, The Intuitionist, colson whitehead easily earnedcomparisons to Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison. His tale http://www.theonionavclub.com/reviews/words/words_j/johnhenrydays01.html

features cinema music video ... justify Volume Issue words Colson Whitehead John Henry Days Buy It! (Doubleday) With his debut novel, The Intuitionist , Colson Whitehead easily earned comparisons to Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison. His tale of elevator inspectors in a world where elevator science had achieved a strange cultural primacy made sense of a surreal scenario, and by the book's finish, Whitehead's coded machinations translated into a pointed message about race and America. John Henry Days tackles an only slightly less unusual subject. J. Sutter, a hack freelance journalist from New York, heads down to West Virginia to cover the unveiling of a new postage stamp portraying black railroad legend John Henry, who bested a steam-powered drill with his own hammer, only to die in the process. Soon, it becomes apparent that Sutter, too, is inadvertently going for some sort of record: coasting along from junket to junket at the expense of publicists. At first, Whitehead seems like he might have it in him to match The Intuitionist 's ingenious allegory, but before long

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39. La Intuicionista De Colson Whitehead Translate this page La intuicionista colson whitehead Novela negra, ascensores y metafísica se danla mano en esta primera obra de colson whitehead. , colson whitehead. http://www.archivodenessus.com/rese/0277/

RESEÑAS COLUMNAS ENTREVISTAS ARTÍCULOS Valoración: Mondadori. Barcelona. 2000. Título original: The Intuitionist (1999). Traducción: Camila Loew. PVP: 2.500 pesetas (15,03 €). 278 páginas. ISBN: 84-397-0426-7. CONTRAPORTADA Es tiempo de crisis en el Departamento de Inspectores de Ascensores de la metrópoli, y Lila Mae Watson, la primera inspectora negra en toda la historia del departamento, se encuentra en el ojo del huracán, pues hay dos bandos opuestos y enfrentados: los empiristas, que revisan los mecanismos siguiendo el manual, y los intuicionistas, que sólo con entrar en la caja del ascensor pueden intuir sus defectos de funcionamiento. Lila Mae pertenece a este segundo grupo y, además, tiene el mejor índice de precisión de todo el departamento. Pero cae el ascensor de un rascacielos nuevo que ella había revisado, y se desata el caos. Es año de elecciones, y nada más querrían los empiristas que poder echar la culpa a un intuicionista. Sin embargo, Lila Mae jamás se ha equivocado. La intuicionista Colson Whitehead Novela negra, ascensores y metafísica se dan la mano en esta primera obra de Colson Whitehead. Lila Mae Watson es la primera inspectora de ascensores de raza negra y nunca se había equivocado... hasta ahora.

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La intuicionista Colson Whitehead Mondadori. Barcelona. 2000. Título original: The Intuitionist (1999). Traducción: Camila Loew. PVP: 2.500 pesetas (15,03 €). 278 páginas. ISBN: 84-397-0426-7. Valoración: 4 Impreso de http://www.archivodenessus.com/rese/0277/ Novela negra, ascensores y metafísica se dan la mano en esta primera obra de Colson Whitehead. Lila Mae Watson es la primera inspectora de ascensores de raza negra y nunca se había equivocado... hasta ahora. por Pedro Jorge Romero Recuerdo a alguien afirmar que la literatura policíaca era el más metafísico de los géneros literarios. Para empezar, se da un crimen que rompe el orden conocido. Se asume que el detective podrá resolver el crimen, descubrir la verdad, controlar el caos y reestablecer el orden perdido. Hasta aquí, al menos, el esquema clásico. Si cabe, la novela negra ha venido a ampliar el esquema, aunque realmente no lo altera. Eso sí, el crimen ya no tiene por qué existir, el detective puede no descubrir nada, y el orden no sólo puede no acabar reestablecido, es que puede simplemente no existir ni en principio. El investigador, metafísico practicante, ya no vive rodeado de una cómoda sociedad que le apoya. Ahora, vive rodeado de una sociedad que muy probablemente le odie, le desprecie y haga todo lo posible por amargarle la existencia. Y si al final se le permite descubrir la verdad, puede que la verdad también sea falsa y que haya otra realidad tras la realidad. Vamos, un lío. Como la vida misma.

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