The Underground Railroad Is Bigger and Better Than You've Heard

Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, the Most-Hyped Novel of 2016, Is Bigger and Better Than You've Heardby Rich SmithLast month, Oprah told everybody to read Colson Whitehead's latest novel, The Underground Railroad, which gave the New York Times best-selling MacArthur fellow a massive signal boost. President Barack Obama read it while on vacation and told Fareed Zakaria it was "terrific" and "powerful." Booksellers and famous writers are tweeting about it. This is the Big Book of the F