Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead Shares New Novel, COOL MACHINE on November 12 with Inprint

Event is part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Brown Reading Series

Inprint, Houston’s literary arts nonprofit organization, presents Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead on Thursday, November 12, 2026, 7:30 pm as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. The event will be held at Congregation Emanu El, 1500 Sunset Boulevard. Whitehead will read from his new novel Cool Machine, followed by an on-stage conversation with a local author/journalist. 

Two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Colson Whitehead comes to Houston with his new novel Cool Machine, the magnificent and highly anticipated final volume of his Harlem Trilogy that brings to life 1980s New York. 

Whitehead is the first writer to win the Pulitzer for consecutive books: the historical novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). The Underground Railroad also won the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. 

He is also the author of The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, and Sag Harbor, as well as The Colossus of New York, a book of essays about the city, and The Noble Hustle, a nonfiction account about the 2011 World Series of Poker. Among his honors, Whitehead has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, a Whiting Writers Award, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. From 2018-2020, he served as the New York State Author.

General admission tickets, on sale now, are $30 and include a copy of Whitehead’s Cool Machine. Additional books will be on sale at a discount at the event through Kindred Stories. For tickets and more information, visit inprint.org or call 713.521.2026.

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