Why Colson Whitehead Defies Literary Genres

James Patterson chats with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead about his expansive literary career. Whitehead opens up about his love for genre-bending storytelling, navigating reader expectations across horror and crime fiction, and how childhood influences shaped his craft.

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