Deborah Treisman speaks with Colson Whitehead about “The Match,” his short story from the April 1, 2019, issue of The New Yorker, which is adapted from his forthcoming novel, “The Nickel Boys.”
The Dozier School was a reformatory school, and the initial idea for those places was an enlightened one: let’s put juvenile offenders in their own space, where we can rehabilitate them through education and work, away from hardened adult criminals. In later years, you could also get sent there if the government had nowhere else to put you, if you were a ward of the state or an orphan.
A good setting, like a good paragraph or a good sentence, hits the Trifecta—fleshes out the world, illuminates character, embroiders the larger themes. Like George Costanza, on “Seinfeld,” when he eats a sandwich, has sex, and watches the Yankees at the same time. One time, back when I had a straight job, I went home on my lunch hour and ate two Katz’s hot dogs, took a bubble bath, and watched a “Rhoda” rerun at the same time. That was a great day, let me tell you.
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