Luke’s Reviews > The Colossus of New York > Status Update

I wish I had finished this faster back when I was still fully invested in it. Now I’m just trying to get to the end and I’m not really appreciating it enough.

I am truly an embarrassment for taking this long to read a book this short. I am sorry Colson Whitehead. You deserve better than this.

There was a sentence in this chapter that was just “This must be the place”. I wonder if Colson Whitehead likes Talking Heads. Just realized right now that they both have head in their names. This means absolutely nothing.

I don’t even know how to categorize this book. Is it nonfiction? Is it poetry? Are these chapters essays? Are they very creative memoirs? What I do know is that Colson Whitehead is perhaps the best writer alive. In the exact same paragraph he can write sentences like “Contemplate dimensions, this citified dimentia” and “Hey, here comes the league of sexy moms”. That’s Literature right there fellas.

Been reading so much fantasy lately, needed a step back into the real world (and also missed reading the incredible words of Colson Whitehead). Love the way he talks about how every New Yorker has their own personal version of the city that exists in their memory.