An Evening with Colson Whitehead
About this Event
Join us for a very special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad, Nickel Boys)!
Whitehead is visiting Winnipeg for the first time to celebrate the publication of (Bond Street Books), an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
This event will take place in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and feature a presentation from the author followed by an on stage conversation hosted by David A. Robertson. There are two ticket packages: admission for one and admission for two. Each package includes one signed hardcover copy of the book. The evening will not be livestreamed.
With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Colson Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.
Colson Whitehead is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for and (which received the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review). He is the author of ,,,,,,, and the two previous books in the Harlem Trilogy: and . He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.
Host David A. Robertson is a two-time Governor General's Literary Award winner and has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award. He has received several other accolades for his work as a writer for children and adults, podcaster, public speaker, and social advocate. He was honoured with a Doctor of Letters from the University of Manitoba in 2023 and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Lethbridge in 2025 and Queen’s University in 2026. He is a member of Norway House Cree Nation and lives in Winnipeg.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 50.32 to CAD 60.97
