The Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education is sponsoring Colson Whitehead’s talk, presented by Bookmarks – July 30, 2026 7:00pm at First Baptist on Fifth

Bookmarks is hosting #1 New York Times bestselling author Colson Whitehead for a talk on his latest book, Cool Machine!

Cool Machine is the final entry in the Harlem Trilogy, though readers can easily jump in at any point. This series of thrillers recreates New York City across the 1960s (Harlem Shuffle), the 1970s (Crook Manifesto), and concludes with the 1980s in Cool Machine.