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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: The USA writer Colson Whitehead talks to Kim Hill
Description: Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Colson Whitehead has written The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, and Harlem Shuffle. He talks to Kim Hill at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival. Hear Colson Whitehead in this highlight of the 2023 Auckland Writers FestivalIn his novel John Henry Days, the author Colson Whitehead includes moments of humour which appeal to Kim Hill. She says, "this is a joke I like: Tiny says, 'you know, I don't mean to be un-PC, but I like Little Black Sambo. My mother used to read me Little Black Sambo when she tucked...