Episode 34: Riding the Rails with THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead
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The hosts discuss Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad, exploring its unique premise and challenges.
Send us Fan Mail In this, our 34th episode of the Great American Novel podcast, the hosts tackle Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, interesting, and in some surprising ways challenging award-winning 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad. This novel works with the premise that the antebellum freedom trail to the north for escaped slaves was not a series of safe houses and hiding spaces with the occasional guide, but instead an actual underground railway. How can something be in some plays com...
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