CROOK MANIFESTO, the second book in the Harlem Trilogy, will be published on July 18th, 2023. Surely this is exciting news, the return of the good gumbo. The early info is at OprahDaily: “Here are square deals and double-crosses, hijinks and down-lows, lefty militants, a vanished movie star, police thugs, sugary breakfast cereals, a national bicentennial from hell. Plus impossible-to-get tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in Madison Square Garden.” Here is the first review, via Kirkus: “It’s not just crime fiction at its craftiest, but shrewdly rendered social history.”

HARLEM SHUFFLE was published in the fall of 2021 and is now out in paperback. The New Yorker ran an excerpt and also a piece where I talk about it. Here is some more information about it, and also the Publishers Weekly review, the Kirkus review, and an interview.

Barry Jenkins's adaptation of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD came out last spring. It’s freaking incredible. Here it is. Here is an interview with me & Barry and here is a review.

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