American novelist and poet, Paul Beatty, took the literary world by storm after winning the 2016 Man Booker Prize for The Sellout, a scathing and hilarious novel on racism in America. Join us for this year’s headline reading and Q&A with Paul Beatty, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize.
Moderated by Aaliyah Bilal, a fiction/non-fiction writer and an Islamicist.