{"id":1800,"date":"2017-04-13T20:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2017-04-13T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:17:25","slug":"and-the-winner-is-colson-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;Colson Whitehead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colsonwhitehead.com\/images\/home\/authorphoto2015.jpg\" alt=\"Colson Whitehead\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>Life is made up of surprising coincidences. Examples: Colson Whitehead was awarded the \u00a02017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on April 11 \u00a0for his book <em>Underground Railroad<\/em>, and he&#8217;s in Columbus on April 28 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bexlib.org\/authorseries\">Bexley Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AND he&#8217;s this week&#8217;s guest on Craft. Wild, huh?<\/p>\n<p>When I spoke with him, Colson had not yet been awarded the prize but he had already garnered plenty of awards and impressive sales. Listen in to hear what it&#8217;s like to carry a big book secret (&#8220;Psst, Colson: Oprah picked your book for her book club but don&#8217;t tell anyone for a few months&#8221;) and why he waited for years before beginning to write this book.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8793\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1800-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1800-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2017-4-19-Whitehead.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is made up of surprising coincidences. Examples: Colson Whitehead was awarded the \u00a02017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on April 11 \u00a0for his book Underground Railroad, and he&#8217;s in Columbus on April 28 with the Bexley Library. AND he&#8217;s this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,7],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-events-to-attend","tag-underground-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}