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Colson Whitehead

Tue., May 5, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.


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Published: Apr 28, 2009

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Colson Whitehead is smoking. Just look at him, with those long dreadlocks and coffee-colored skin and come-hither, soulful eyes. But it's not his dead sexiness that makes Whitehead worth watching (although it certainly doesn't hurt). The MacArthur Prize winner, whose fiction includes John Henry Days and The Intuitionist, will read from his new novel, Sag Harbor (Doubleday), about an angsty, middle-class black teen who finds his place in the world during summer break. Whether or not you're blown away by Whitehead's words, you'll definitely have something nice to look at.

Tue., May 5, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

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