Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead talks about his new novel with The Book Pages’ editor Erik Pedersen.
Colson Whitehead starts laughing when he hears the first question.– is about the films of low-budget movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, whose American International Pictures produced tons of successful, schlocky films in the ‘60s and ‘70s – from “Beach Party” and “Blacula” to the double-headers “The Thing With Two Heads” and “The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant.”“I was definitely raised on B-movies and TV.
I think I’m always trying to come at things sideways. My first book [“The Intuitionist”] is about elevator inspectors but also talks about race and the city. It uses this very mundane subject as a sort of back door to get all these different ideas in. My zombie novel [“Zone One”] is about people who were sort of cleaning up after the apocalypse. Maybe they’re not the first people you would think of when you think about a post-apocalyptic novel.
I’m not sure why, because I’ve worked at newspapers, a website and ice cream stores, but I’ve never actually had a lot of job experience. [laughs] But people having odd jobs is a strange fascination with me, like zombie picker-upper and an elevator inspector and a fence. They’re just great opportunities for metaphor and for play.
Q. Your books are viewed by some as a mix of genre novels and literary fiction. Do you approach them any differently in your mind or are they just books? Q. You’ve talked about Carney having a compartmentalized psyche, but the character Pepper seems to have a clearer understanding of himself.
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