Harlem Shuffle combines the pace of a crime novel with social drama

Harlem Shuffle review: This book is a proper social drama - The book has shades of Tom Wolfe about it, if Tom Wolfe had been ...
Wall Street Journal

Book Review: Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’

For some African-American writers, New York’s uptown neighborhood of Harlem represents both a crucible and a showcase. Writing about Harlem has been known to launch literary careers, for those good ...
USA Today

5 books not to miss: Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ new Gabrielle Union

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. All books are on sale Sept. 14. 1. “Harlem Shuffle,” by Colson ...
The Boston Globe

Criminal acts in Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’

When we meet Ray Carney, the protagonist of “Harlem Shuffle,” Colson Whitehead’s 10th book and eighth novel, he’s in lower Manhattan, “halfway down Cortlandt, off Greenwich” visiting his radio ...
AV Club

Colson Whitehead thrives in the moral grays of Harlem Shuffle

Throughout his career, Colson Whitehead has moved between literary genres with brio, penning the gritty speculative fiction of The Intuitionist, the uproarious bildungsroman of Sag Harbor, and the ...
USA Today

Colson Whitehead recreates 1960s Harlem in hard-boiled crime novel 'Harlem Shuffle'

Colson Whitehead has had an unrivaled recent run as an author. His 2016 novel, “The Underground Railroad,” won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and 2019’s “The Nickel Boys” won a Pulitzer ...
NPR

Colson Whitehead On 'Harlem Shuffle'

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks about Harlem, hooligans, race and class in the '60s. His novel Harlem Shuffle, now out in paperback, is about a furniture store owner in Harlem who's sideline ...
AOL

‘Harlem Shuffle’ is Colson Whitehead’s great American dream

In the embodiment of hustle, Colson Whitehead brilliantly weaves crime fiction, family drama and political history in one rollicking and heartrending novel with Harlem Shuffle. There’s a daring hotel ...
The Washington Post

With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention

As the only living writer who’s won two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction — and a National Book Award and a MacArthur “genius” grant — Colson Whitehead risks growing so encrusted with literary prestige that ...
Los Angeles Times

Colson Whitehead just wants to have fun

In Harlem during the summer of 1964, a white police officer shot and killed a Black 15-year-old boy in front of more than a dozen witnesses, setting off six nights of rioting across the neighborhood. ...
Time

Harlem Shuffle

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Jambands

Watch: The Rolling Stones Play “Harlem Shuffle” for First Time Since 1990

The Rolling Stones kept their rescheduled U.S. tour rolling on Monday night as the legendary UK rockers wrapped up the East Coast leg of their outing with a performance at MetLife Stadium in East ...