Gilbert Cruz is joined by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, who talks about his novel “Crook Manifesto,” which picks up the tale of furniture salesman and sometime crook Ray Carney, and what it was like to write about Harlem in the ’70s. He also reflects on his famous post-9/11 essay about New York City. … I felt better writing it, and I was articulating so much about the city I’d never tried to articulate before. And then when it came out, it meant so much to other people. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

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Persons: Gilbert Cruz, Colson Whitehead, Ray Carney, ” Whitehead, ”, …, I’d Organizations: Harlem, New, New York Times Magazine Locations: New York City, “, New York, ”