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Colson Whitehead On ‘Crook Manifesto’

“My early ’70s New York is dingy and grimy,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author says. Whitehead’s new sequel to Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, centers on crime at every level, from small-time crooks to Harlem’s elite.

Later, TV critic David Bianculli reviews two new books about TV.