Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Paul Beatty took the Booker Prize in 2015 with this satirical novel about a grieving man’s attempts to put his small town back on the map. The book lampoons the notion of a post-racial America, touching the fourth rail of "political correctness" with outlandish scenes of segregation and slavery. It's a real high-wire act of a premise that he mostly pulls off??
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