![]() Writing is a struggle, full of weird contradictions.Īs a satirist, do you think there is anything that ought to be satire-proof? I am fortunate in having found something I enjoy, even though I hate doing it too. ![]() I was affected by what you said when you received the Booker prize – you were visibly moved yourself – about writing having given you a life… I tend to like underappreciated characters: you think you see one thing, you might be seeing something else. ![]() But the real seed for the book was the character of Hominy. I have a pretty good sense of direction, although I don’t know how I’m going to get there. I was asking myself: how do you segregate something without having any power? I was intrigued to try to figure it out. I started with the idea of rendering segregation in a contemporary context. When you started The Sellout, to what extent did you know where you were going with it? ![]() He lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Booker prize with his fourth novel, The Sellout, a coruscating bestseller about race relations in the US. He started his writing career as a poet and has edited Hokum, a study in African American humour. ![]() He studied psychology at Boston University and received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. P aul Beatty was born in Los Angeles in 1962. ![]()
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