This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of THE INTUITIONIST by Colson Whitehead. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists, whose observational methods involve meditation and instinct…A dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, THE INTUITIONIST conjures a parallel universe in which latent ironies in matters of morality, politics, and race come to light, and stands as the celebrated debut of an important American writer.”