For a film that looks and feels like a low budget B-noir, #TheSellout (1952, Gerald Mayer) features an outstanding cast. Walter Pidgeon, Karl Malden, Audrey Totter, John Hodiak, Everett Sloane, Thomas Gomez. And they are all perfectly cast. Not the most interesting story, but it passes the time.

Of course he would

Guess who they are friends with..

#TheSellOut

📚 The Sellout by Paul Beatty: satire that slaps & hugs you at the same time.

The outsider theme hits hard—perfect for anyone who’s felt like they didn’t belong (like a kid leaving a cult 🙋‍♀️). Sharp humour, sharper truths.

Thoughts? ✨ #TheSellout #OutsiderStories

Episode 45: “Yelling ‘Racism’ in a ‘Post-racist’ World,” or Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Part II The second half of The Sellout does feature a MacGuffin and resolution of sorts, although the plot is minimal compared to the satire and world building. The UMBs struggle to understand the book, bu…

#uppermiddlebrow struggles to make sense of the assemblage of brilliant prose that makes up #PaulBeatty's #TheSellout. Part 2.

On the current #uppermiddlebrow pod, we wonder if #PaulBeatty's #TheSellout is a Dickensian novel, Swiftian satire, absurdist epic poem, or something else.

Episode 44: “Faintly Dickensian?” or Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Part I Chris and Jesse are thrown into Paul Beatty’s 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner The Sellout, because this novel seems to try to take the upper hand with its reader. Our two heroes agree that it&#8…

New #Uppermiddlebrow ep.

#PaulBeatty's 2015 satirical roller coaster, #TheSellout.

This is one of the funniest, most cutting, painful to read (in an illuminating way) interviews ever. Thank you @AskMateo for reminding me that #TheSellOut is high on my TBR.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/11/pa...

Das nächste Kapitel heißt "The shit you shovel" und ich bin verliebt. #thesellout