"I ask myself: Is the outlook of this book comic? Is it tragic? Is the story best served by a first person narrator who's telling his or her story? Is it best served by an omniscient narrator who can stand above and make connections about the characters and society and politics? Part of figuring out how to tell the story is tone and voice, the same way I'm picking characters and places."
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On choosing the tone of his works in “INTERVIEWS—Powell's Interview: Colson Whitehead, Author of 'The Nickel Boys'” in Powell’s City of Books (2019 Jul 11)
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