{"id":25529,"date":"2019-03-25T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=25529"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:03:07","slug":"colson-whitehead-the-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2019\/03\/25\/colson-whitehead-the-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Colson Whitehead: “The Match”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Match”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Colson Whitehead
\nfrom the April 1, 2019 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"I<\/span> had mixed feelings about Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel\u00a0The Underground Railroad<\/em>. I liked quite a bit of it, but I didn't followed the experiment to the same depths as others. I think that's on me; as I've read more critical commentary on it, I like it more and more in retrospect. This summer we'll get his follow-up, The Nickel Boys<\/em>, from which we get \"The Match.\" Yes, this is an excerpt, but presumably one that will garner quite a bit of attention. I know I'm curious.<\/p>\n

But not quite enough to dig in on a Monday morning. So I'll put this out there and look forward to your thoughts below. Is this a good story? Does it make you want to read\u00a0The Nickel Boys<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Also, what are your thoughts on Whitehead in general? I think I need to get to know him better, personally. When I first heard of him, he'd published a couple of novels and was relatively young. But time has passed! The Nickel Boys<\/em> will be his seventh novel. He's now been publishing for twenty years, consistently picking up honors and accolades since the beginning. So maybe I should just skip the excerpt and plan on reading the book in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>