Coverage of Paul Beatty's The Sellout

 Paul Beatty's The Sellout was published. What follows are some of the reviews and interviews concerning the book from 2015.


Reviews:
• December 2: The Sellout is a wry commentary on race - Safa Jinje - The Globe and Mail
• September 29: The Sellout by Paul Beatty - Lauren Magee 
• June 3: The Sellout by Paul Beatty - Sparrow - A Gathering of Tribes
• May 14: In His Fourth Novel, Paul Beatty Aims to Get Under Your Skin - Dan Barrett - Pop Matters 
• April 24: Ending my reading slump with a 'Sellout'- John Warner - Chicago Tribune
• April 9: Paul Beatty’s ‘The Sellout’ - Kevin Young - New York Times
• April: The Great Blacksby - Barrett Hathcock - Open Letters Monthly
• March 25:  Rife with wit and historical awareness -  Heather Scott Partington - Las Vegas Weekly
• March 23: What Happens When A Black Man Brings Segregation Back? Hilarity. - Evan Narcisse - Gawker
• March 16:  The Sellout by Paul Beatty - Luke Wiget - The Rumpus
• March 9: The Inanity of American Plutocracy: On Paul Beatty’s ‘The Sellout’ - Matt Seidel - The Millions
• March 7: ‘The Sellout,’ by Paul Beatty - Elizabeth Hoover - Dallas Morning News
• March 7: The Sellout by Paul Beatty - Brocke Clarke - Boston Globe
• March 5: The Sellout -Theodore Yurevitch - Book Page
• March 4: The Sellout by Paul Beatty review - Seth Colter Walls - The Guardian
• March 4: The Bottom Line: 'The Sellout' By Paul Beatty - Maddie Crum - HuffPost Books
• March 4: The Sellout by Paul Beatty - John McMurtrie - SF Gate
• March 3: The Race Pervert - Brian Hurley - Fiction Advocate
• March 2: 'The Sellout' Is A Scorchingly Funny Satire On 'Post-Racial' America - Michael Schaub - NPR
• February 26: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America - Dwight Garner - New York Times
• February 26: Paul Beatty's bruising, satirical 'Sellout' is driven by black voices - Kiese Laymon - LA Times
• November (2014): The Sellout - Publishers Weekly

Interviews & Profiles
• May 23: Novelist Paul Beatty on Writing and Satire - Alexandra Wolfe - The Wall Street Journal
• May 8:  Novelist Paul Beatty pokes fun at how we talk about race in America - PBS NewsHour
• May 7: Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty - Chris Jackson - The Paris Review
• May 7: Don't Call "The Sellout" a Ghetto Pastoral - Evelyn McDonnell - LA Review of Books
• March 24: Paul Beatty on Race, Violence and His Scathing New Novel 'The Sellout' - Darren Reidy - Rolling Stone
• March 16: Paul Beatty Screams No ‘Sellout’ - Amy Linden - Ebony
• March 16: Paul Beatty Reads The Sellout - Ian Macallen - English Kills Review
• March 6: Weed, Watermelon And 'Post-Racial' America - Jane Clayson - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
• March 2: Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race - John Williams - New York Times
• 2013: An Interview with Paul Beatty -  Frédéric Sylvanise - Transatlantica

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