Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
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Down. Tonight, we have the exclusive story. It is friday night. The big story on action news tonight is a dragnet for a violent gang of bandits involved in the shooting of a cab driver. With the story, Investigative Reporter chad pa deli. What do you have on this . Police tell me the gang may be responsible for upwards of two dozen crimes. One person is in custody. Police are looking for many more suspects. Police say this is Surveillance Video from the brazen crews robbery. They enter petes pizza. Employees scattered. They force an employee to the front of the store, steal cash and flee. A guy came in with a hood strapped to his face. A month later police say the crew struck again. This time Richard Carol was at the front counter getting ready to close up. Once i noticed what was going on i told everyone to run to the back. They ran out the back door and wrp uninjured. As many as a dozen teens and young men are part of the crew terrorizing businesses from philadelphia to the main line