The Sellout

[Mark Thibodeau]

His interview with Marc Maron on the latter's WTF Podcast was
pretty... well, boring to be honest. And, yes, cagey too. Almost like
(and I hate to even contemplate this, hate that my mind has taken me
there) he's an actor hired to play the part of a wunderkind writer.

It's also convenient that the only famous person in his literary
upbringing - David Foster Wallace, who allegedly taught him for a year
- is dead now and can't confirm the relationship.Or am I
mis-remembering that connection?


YOPJ


On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Books editor of The Guardian asked all for questions of Beatty for her interview. She asked him mine: the influence of Pynchon?
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> He said he'd never read him. She said he was pretty cagey about his reading and influences, so maybe unreliable, famously maintaining the book " is not satire" .
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> I admire that attempt to focus on the substance, themes, of it rather than an aesthetic labeling and minimizing.
>
> As if it could be anything else, though. " savage satire" as has been said since before Jonathan Swift, I'm sure.
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Apr 22, 2017, at 3:16 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> Yes!
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>> Fwiw,    *Beatty mixes the factual and the fanciful. The town name is made up (sly nods to the actual founder of Compton, Griffith Dickenson Compton, and to the father of social realist novels, Charles Dickens), and the setting may sound surreal, but in fact, Dickens is based on an actual Los Angeles area: Richland Farms, straight inside Compton. Yes, in the area made famous by Niggaz With Attitude and Kendrick Lamar — the town known worldwide as the home of gangs and gangsta rap — there are horses, goats, corn, and chickens. There really is a rodeo in Compton. Paul didn’t make that up.*
>> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont-call-paul-beatty-the-sellout-a-ghetto-pastoral/
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>>
>> And Richland Farms -  Straight Outta’ Compton:
>> http://www.npr.org/2011/04/03/134981907/straight-outta-compton-on-horseback
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>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/012017-2/the-sellout-by-paul-beatty/
>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My very reaction......In every possible sense of the phrase.
>>>
>>> Finished it this week.
>>>
>>> Equal parts brilliant and insidious...
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>>>
>>> love,
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>>> cfa
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>>> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Great read!
>>>
>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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