At one point, he mugs his child in public to measure the empathy of bystanders. The narrator’s father, a psychologist, radically experiments on his son. “The Sellout” is set in Dickens, a semi-agrarian section of southern Los Angeles. Dwight Garner, in his review in The New York Times, wrote that the first third of the novel “reads like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle wrapped in a satirical yet surprisingly delicate literary and historical sensibility.” Blistering on the past and present of race in America, it spares no person or piety. The author, 52, has just published “The Sellout” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), his fourth novel and first in seven years. They made me get out and erase one or two of the words.”Ī provocative spirit still animates Mr. “Something ‘pigs,’ ‘fuzz.’ The thing must have been four lines. “I wish I could remember the poem,” he said. Beatty painted a poem about the police near the top of the bus, and once on the road his verse attracted the attention of the actual police.
At a cafe in the West Village recently, he recalled attending a summer camp in Santa Monica, Calif., where he and other children decorated the outside of a bus in a “hippie” style. Even in elementary school, the novelist Paul Beatty knew how to make waves with words.
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