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Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.

Electric Literature Aloud! is a compendium of 10 short stories from the anthology series. The editors select stories with a strong voice that capture readers and listeners and lead them somewhere exciting, unexpected, and meaningful.

The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school, when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years.

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan.

Desde pequeño, Elwood Curtis ha escuchado con devoción, en el viejo tocadiscos de su abuela, los discursos de Martin Luther King. Sus ideas, al igual que las de James Baldwin, han hecho de este adolescente negro un estudiante prometedor que sueña con un futuro digno. Pero de poco sirve esto en la Academia Nickel para chicos: un reformatorio que se vanagloria de convertir a sus internos en hombres hechos y derechos pero que oculta una realidad inhumana respaldada por muchos y obviada por todos.

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realise, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything, and our hero's efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.

A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties.

Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers. Im schillernden Harlem der 1960er-Jahre, wo Gangster und Zuhälter, Hochstapler und Schießwütige die Strippen ziehen, versucht ein Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen so ehrlich wie möglich aufzusteigen. Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen. Doch als seine Frau ein zweites Kind erwartet, reichen die Einkünfte aus seinem Einrichtungsladen auf der 125th Street nicht aus für den Standard, den die Schwiegereltern erwarten. Cousin Freddie bringt gelegentlich eine Goldkette vorbei, die Ray bei einem Juwelier am Times Square versetzt.

Comienza la década de los setenta y la ciudad de Nueva York parece más sucia y peligrosa que nunca. Mientras en las calles de Harlem estalla una guerra abierta entre el Ejército Negro de Liberación y la policía estatal, Ray Carney, al frente de su próspera tienda de muebles, intenta mantenerse alejado de los negocios turbios y ser un honrado padre de familia.

Per i suoi clienti e vicini su 125th Street, Ray Carney è un commerciante serio: sgobba da bravo padre di famiglia nel suo negozio dove vende mobili a prezzi contenuti. Sua moglie Elizabeth aspetta il secondo figlio e, sebbene i suoceri non mostrino di apprezzare granché il fatto che la figlia e i nipoti vivano in un piccolo appartamento vicino ai binari della sopraelevata, Ray sembra soddisfatto così. Ma dietro questa apparente normalità si aprono delle crepe: sono in pochi a sapere che suo padre era un membro piuttosto temuto della criminalità locale.

Questa volta Ray Carney sta rigando dritto. Dopo quattro anni, il suo passato da ricettatore è quasi un ricordo e il suo negozio di mobili in 125th Street macina affari onesti. Il contesto tuttavia non aiuta; è il 1971 ed è New York: la spazzatura si accumula per le strade e infuriano incendi dolosi, il livello di criminalità è ai massimi storici, la città scivola verso la bancarotta ed è guerra aperta tra la polizia e il Black Liberation Army.

A través de trece episodios, Colson Whitehead traza un recorrido visual por las calles de la ciudad, pero también por su propia memoria: qué se siente al contemplar Manhattan por primera vez, cómo Nueva York desplaza a sus habitantes de la soledad al calor del gentío... A ritmo de jazz, el autor utiliza distintas voces narrativas con la intención de transmitirnos con total fidelidad la banda sonora de este lugar, que es a la vez variada y fluida.