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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Man Booker Prize winner on being black in America

    Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout , a racial satire set in south LA. It’s laced with cutting insights about race, slavery, Oreo cookies and segregation.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 26, 2016 • 1 min read

    Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout, a racial satire set in south LA. It’s laced with cutting insights about race, slavery, Oreo cookies and segregation.

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    First American wins Man Booker Prize for satirizing race in LA
    1. 0:30Man Booker Prize winner on being black in AmericaYou’re reading this
    2. 15:46What's behind rising STD rates in California?
    3. 24:42'Fire at Sea' filmmaker: 'We are living a life of tragedy'
    4. 40:27Taking care of LA County's housing needs with 1 percent of its land
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Paul Beatty

      author, 'The Sellout'

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    First American wins Man Booker Prize for satirizing race in LA
    1. 0:30Man Booker Prize winner on being black in AmericaYou’re reading this
    2. 15:46What's behind rising STD rates in California?
    3. 24:42'Fire at Sea' filmmaker: 'We are living a life of tragedy'
    4. 40:27Taking care of LA County's housing needs with 1 percent of its land
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