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Hilarious Discomfort: On Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout”
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Hilarious Discomfort: On Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout”

The Sellout — Paul Beatty Farrar, Straus & Giroux March 2015 304 pages Buy now I sat down to read Paul Beatty’s new satirical novel The Sellout knowing I was going to write about it. In fact, I had committed to writing about it. I had pitched it; it was my idea. This knowledge, in conjunction with the book’s…