Colson Whitehead on 'Cool Machine,' the final in his Harlem Trilogy series

Ray Carney is a furniture salesman in Harlem with a long-running side hustle. Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy follows the character as he descends into crime across decades in a rapidly changing New York. Cool Machine is the third and final book in that series. In today’s episode, Whitehead speaks with Weekend Edition ’s Ayesha Rascoe about Carney as a divided soul. They also chat about…