# Colson Whitehead on his new novel, ‘Cool Machine’

An episode of [The Pat Kenny Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/698050979), 22 Aug 2026, 14 min.

Audio: https://bauernordic-pods.sharp-stream.com/ie/2790/colson_pod_69a226a3_normal.mp3?aw_0_1st.episodeid=416343&aw_0_1st.collectionid=2790

Irish readers may know Colson Whitehead for ‘The Underground Railroad’, his fictional account of the route southern slaves undertook to reach freedom. His new book ‘Cool Machine’ has just been published, the final book in his highly entertaining Harlem trilogy. Colson joins Pat to talk about it.

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