Colson Whitehead Talks About Embracing Change, Pulling Off A Heist, And Finding A Good Coffee Table

"The city was question and answer in one," Colson Whitehead writes early on in Cool Machine , the final novel of his Harlem Trilogy. "Cause and effect and everything else, too." You can forgive the lifelong New Yorker for being a little romantic about his hometown, which is both the setting and central metaphor across the tales of Harlem furniture salesman- cum -not-so-reluctant-crook Ray Carney,