{"id":95728,"date":"2016-03-18T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95728"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:39:29","slug":"paul-beatty-wins-national-book-critics-circles-fiction-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/paul-beatty-wins-national-book-critics-circles-fiction-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Beatty Wins National Book Critics Circle\u2019s Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85519\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85519\" class=\"wp-image-85519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg 1398w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hannah Assouline<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our congratulations to Paul Beatty, whose novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/thesellout\/paulbeatty\" target=\"_blank\">The Sellout<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>won\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookcritics.org\/awards\">National Book Critics Circle Award<\/a> for fiction\u00a0yesterday.\u00a0The<em>\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>calls\u00a0<em>The Sellout\u00a0<\/em>\u201ca scorching satire that wrenches humor out of painful subjects like slavery, police violence, and segregation\u201d\u2014it was one of our favorite novels of 2015. Last May, the <em>Daily<\/em>\u00a0published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/our-thing-an-interview-with-paul-beatty\/\" target=\"_blank\">a conversation between Beatty and Chris Jackson<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m surprised that everybody keeps calling this a comic novel,\u201d Beatty said of\u00a0<em>The Sellout<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I mean, I get it. But it\u2019s an easy way not to talk about anything else. I would better understand it if they talked about it in a hyphenated way, to talk about it as a tragicomic novel, even. There\u2019s comedy in the book, but there\u2019s a bunch of other stuff in there, too. It\u2019s easy just to hide behind the humor, and then you don\u2019t have to talk about anything else. But I definitely don\u2019t think of myself as a satirist. I mean, what is satire? Do you remember that <em>New Yorker <\/em>cover that everyone was saying was satire? Barack and Michelle fist-bumping? That\u2019s not satire to me. It was just a commentary. Just poking fun at somebody doesn\u2019t make something satire. It\u2019s a word everyone throws around a lot. I\u2019m not sure how I define it \u2026\u00a0I was talking to a friend and she said, Your audience is just a bunch of weirdos. But she meant it in a very positive way. There\u2019s a special kind of weirdo who\u2019s going to appreciate it. At least, I think that\u2019s what she was saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/our-thing-an-interview-with-paul-beatty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole interview here<\/a>. Congratulations to Paul Beatty and all the NBCC award winners from all of us at\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations to Paul Beatty, whose novel\u00a0The Sellout\u00a0won\u00a0the\u00a0National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction\u00a0yesterday.\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0calls\u00a0The Sellout\u00a0\u201ca scorching satire that wrenches humor out of painful subjects like slavery, police violence, and segregation\u201d\u2014it was one of our favorite novels of 2015. Last May, the Daily\u00a0published a conversation between Beatty and Chris Jackson. \u201cI\u2019m surprised that everybody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[12325,21020,71,1132,21587,17241,17323],"class_list":["post-95728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-awards","tag-chris-jackson","tag-fiction","tag-interviews","tag-national-book-critics-circle-award","tag-paul-beatty","tag-the-sellout"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Read an Interview with Paul Beatty, NBCC Fiction Winner<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris Jackson talks to the author about his novel \u201cThe 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