Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.
Paul Beatty’s formally experimental, informally humanely scathing novel about race, The Sellout, has just won the Man Booker Prize. Chris Paul Wolfe interviews Beatty for Guernica, touching on invented languages of childhood, bringing a psychology background to teaching writing, NYC v. LA, and yes, politics and race.
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