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Paul Beatty

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This Thing of Existence: Talking with Rion Amilcar Scott

  • TJ Fuller
  • July 29, 2019
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #183: Ryan Chapman

  • Michael Barron
  • July 2, 2019
“[Y]ou really want to engage a reader, and not abuse their time.”
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/13–3/19

  • Nishant Batsha
  • March 13, 2019
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Day

  • Alice Roche Cody
  • February 13, 2017
Jon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as "a technology for living."
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tara Betts

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • January 18, 2017
Tara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
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“A Changed World”

  • Kirstin Allio
  • November 3, 2016
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…
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Unstuck in Time

  • Roxie Pell
  • June 28, 2016
Despite its uncanny salience in the context of this most recent wave of social injustice and protest, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout was written well before the #BlackLivesMatter movement began. Far…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Darryl Pinckney

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • May 7, 2016
If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away. Ask them to trust you with the truth.
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A Philip Roth for a New Generation

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 11, 2015
Superficially, Philip Roth and Paul Beatty might appear as polar opposites. But over at Forward, Hannah Assouline argues that Beatty could be Roth’s literary heir. Assouline calls Beatty’s latest novel, The Sellout,…
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Notable NYC: 4/18–4/24

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 18, 2015
Saturday 4/18: Paul Beatty discusses The Sellout, Brooklyn Public Library, 4 p.m., free (RSVP recommended). Sara Fetherolf, John Reid Currie, Zakia Henderson-Brown, and Carrie Meyers join the Oh, Bernice! reading…
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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

  • Luke Wiget
  • March 16, 2015
Luke Wiget reviews The Sellout by Paul Beatty today in Rumpus Books.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Jill Schepmann
  • March 13, 2015
Chalk it up to a week where Twitter just felt like too much. Chalk it up to good ol’ nostalgia for the feel of a hefty book in your hands.…
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