A notebook on the receptions of Ta-Nehisi Coates & Colson Whitehead: a presentation at Eastern Illinois University

On Thursday, January 18, I'll give a presentation at Eastern Illinois University on the remarkable receptions of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Colson Whitehead. I've followed their careers for over a decade now, and tracing their increased popularity in recent years has been especially intriguing.

The presentation will concentrate on:

• the extraordinary responses to Coates's and Whitehead's recent works
• the implications of outlier black writers receiving remarkable receptions
• the reality of widespread indifference to publications
• histories of receptions to black writers

Below, I provide links to various aspects of my presentation.

General
• Highlights in the history of remarkable reception of black writers
• Publishing and indifference (coming soon)

Noations on Whitehead's work
• The Coverage of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
• Colson Whitehead and the New York Times
• A print-only excerpt from Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad in the New York Times

Notations on Coates
• Ta-Nehisi Coates and Toni Morrison's mutally beneficial endorsements
• Common Read Projects and Between the World and Me
• Coverage of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Between the World and Me

Related:
• A Notebook on Ta-Nehisi Coates
• A Notebook on Colson Whitehead