The New Yorker Radio HourColson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy

Writers Owe No Political Duty

15:40–16:11 · 31s

Asked about political responsibility, Whitehead flatly answers "none," insisting fiction writers should feel free to write gardening books or love poetry—his only obligation is "not to make the book bad."

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