Colson Whitehead Reads “The Match”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Mar 26, 2019

Colson Whitehead reads his story “The Match,” from the April 1, 2019, issue of the magazine. Whitehead has published six novels, including “The Intuitionist” and “The Underground Railroad,” which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His new novel, “The Nickel Boys,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July.

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