Press Play with Madeleine Brand
First American wins Man Booker Prize for satirizing race in LA
Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout, a satire based in south LA. It’s laced with cutting insights on race, slavery, Oreo cookies and segregation.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenLos Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout, a satire based in south LA. It’s laced with cutting insights on race, slavery, segregation and Oreo cookies.
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