Holy crap. Just reading Beatty's The Sellout, and I've come across a pretty egregious error.

[Mark Thibodeau]

And this, my friends, is an example of precisely what I was afraid
might happen actually happening.

Let me explain...

On page 95, Beatty writes:

"The only certainties I had about the African-American condition were
that we had no concept of the phrases too sweet and too salty. And in
ten years, through countless California cruelties and slights against
the blacks, the poor, the people of color, like Propositions 8 and
187, the disappearance of social welfare, David Cronenberg's Crash and
Dave Eggers's do-gooder condescension, I hadn't spoken a single word."

I'm sure I probably don't have to point this out to too many of you
here on the P-list, but Beatty can't possibly mean Cronenberg's 1996
film in this context. He must be referring to Paul Haggis's 2006
Academy Award-winning mediocrity. And now his error is immortalized in
the printed word, in a very popular novel, indeed.

SHIT!

I haven't been able to find Beatty on social media at all. Is there
any way to contact him to let him know, so that maybe the error can be
corrected in future editions? It IS a pretty serious error, after all.

Cheers,
yer old pal Jerky