Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 20/07/2026I got good use out of these books while writing Cool Machine. Old heads may remember the old Loompanics catalog — I’m pretty sure these books were in there, back in the day. 815510
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 15/07/2026Our car downloaded an “operating system” update and now it talks to me all fuckin’ the time. I yelled at it to shut the fuck up and it displayed this: 818519
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 09/07/2026Tour time approaches on its little cockroach feet. Come on out if you feel empty inside — it won’t make you feel better, but sometimes it’s nice to get out of the house. 1217824
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/05/2026Another weird AI artifact: content sites that slap your name on slop articles. Apparently I’m a columnist on this site, and quite productive. 1918740
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 21/05/2026Hello! COOL MACHINE is coming your way July 21st. Perhaps I will see you at one of these clean and sanitary performance venues. 61179
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 19/05/2026The green room bathroom of the Jackson WY Center for the Arts is an interesting place. Not pictured: the second fan. 7369869
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 19/04/2026I had to make some changes to my AI piece before the Times would print it (“we’re a family paper”). A German newspaper wants to rerun it, so I’d like to translate it back before they translate it into German: 1326228
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 11/01/2026Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent... 91327407
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 02/12/2025Can you see the people of color in the writers' room now? 210310
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 28/10/2025(Also Pepper returns and has adventures in the East Village art scene circa 1983, and there are dad jokes) (anyway you guys are nice, thanks for reading!) 5961
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 28/10/2025This novel has everything…cameos by Sue Simmons... 8943
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 28/10/2025Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you 26955107
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 12/09/2025I remember standing on this platform, 40 years ago, reading a paperback of “On the Road” and thinking, God, this guy is so corny. 1131610
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 25/04/2025On a nice concert streak at the moment. Kraftwerk—> Herb Alpert—> Gang of Four. All were great! Check out Gang of Four’s farewell tour if you can. They’re playing all of Entertainment, plus da hits. 927515
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 15/02/2025Same as it ever was. Jimmy Breslin on the inauguration of Koch’s 3rd term. (From Jack Newfield & Wayne Barrett’s “City for Sale”) 516823
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 01/02/2025Black History Month Salutes: Gerry Johnson of Flint, Michigan, who in 1968 became the first person to modify “turkey” with “jive.” The colorful insult remained in circulation for 16 years, until it was used by the “breakdancing grandma” character in the Joe Piscipo vehicle “Layin’ It Down.” 19874144
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 18/12/2024You: Timothée Chalamet really looks like Bob Dylan! Me: Is that orange and white steam pipe behind him period-authentic? 40132456
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 13/12/2024@davekehr.bsky.social Hey Dave Kehr, did you know I gave you a shout out in my book Crook Manifesto? When an arsonist-turned-blaxploitation filmmaker puts out a film and gets reviewed. I didn’t live in Chicago, but remember your Daily News days with much affection! 3547
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 29/11/2024Wow, another impostor just popped up. Warning: if this guy DM’s you and says, “Mesa write fiction anna non fiction story,” it’s probably a scam. (Probably.) 41417
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 28/11/2024Ugh, please report YET ANOTHER impersonator. Come on, Bluesky moderators, get it together. (Like my eyes are that big!) 61041
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 31/10/2024I guess I’m…distracted? Got to airport security and looked down - 6492426
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 28/08/2024(actual chapter title & plot point in my next book) 1292
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 07/06/2024Perhaps I will see you tomorrow at the Bronx Book Festival? 11am at Fordham Plaza in conversation with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah??? 1335
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 10/05/2024Basically, once we normalize yuppies, gentrification soars. But seriously — I recently discovered a lot of my writer pals were unaware of google n-grams. The site is a great tool for factchecking period work. Were people actually using this word/slang in 1983, or 1883? Have a look. 1222743
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 08/02/2024I’m told that according to local custom, when the hair at the bottom of your Applebee’s fries forms the first initial of your name, it’s good luck! 91127
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 02/12/2023Godzilla Minus One is really good, and has the best depiction of Giant Monster PTSD since that little girl shrieking “Them! Argh! Them!” in Them!(1954). 6504
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/10/2023Slowly getting the engines up and running after a long break…but gathering some momentum maybe... 71222
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 04/08/2023I hate when segregation gets, like, extra-specific: 1330620
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 01/08/2023Time to do some work…I’ll just fire up the software… 201917
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 29/07/2023Third Place Books in Seattle made a cool bookmark for my reading tonight 418115
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 16/06/2023In same Afrofuturism exhibit, Octavia Butler’s Olivetti typewriter: 111832
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 16/06/2023At Museum of AA History’s Afrofuturism exhibit, this juxtaposition: Trayvon Martin’s flight suit from a school program, Uhuru’s uniform & astronaut Charles Bolden’s flight suit: 014749
