Colson Whitehead in Conversation with Samantha Hunt

Colson Whitehead recalls 1980s New York in his autobiographical fourth novel, The Colossus of New York, a collection of 13 essays that glory in the city's grit. Under the trees of Bryant Park, he discusses his latest ouvre with Samantha Hunt, whose novel The Invention of Everything Else recounts the story of a mad scientist and chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker.