How To Sell Out: The (hidden) Cost Of Being A Black Writer

  • Author: Chad Sanders
  • Narrator: Chad Sanders
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 5:39:54
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Synopsis

A timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art.

In the summer of 2020, when the nation was erupting in protest over the murder of George Floyd, Chad Sanders was quietly celebrating for selfish reasons. Why? After years of struggling to get his footing as a writer, he’d finally landed a New York Times op-ed. He wrote an essay about the hollow messages of concern he’d been receiving from white friends and colleagues. It went viral, and in the years that followed, he built a solid career as a creator—of books, podcasts, TV shows, and films—by mining his most painful experiences of being Black in America.

Black pain for white money. For Sanders, this was a lucrative trade. One he thought he could work for the rest of his life. But it didn’t take long for him to realize he, like so many other writers, was getting the short end of the stick.

In How to Sell Out, Sanders draws on his personal experiences to offer a wry, darkly comic look at the invisible realities of making a living as a Black writer who writes about race. He relays stories of his time in the tech business, his experiences in TV writers’ rooms, his childhood participation in Jack and Jill, his family and relationships, and the struggles of sharing his racial trauma in exchange for cash. Combining meditations on historical and current events and the intersection of race and class with short creative essays, Sanders sculpts a freewheeling arc that is as funny as it is moving and thought-provoking.

Chapters

  • 001 HowToSellOut Open

    Duration: 22s
  • 002 HowToSellOut Chapter1

    Duration: 36min
  • 003 HowToSellOut Chapter2

    Duration: 18min
  • 004 HowToSellOut Chapter3

    Duration: 14min
  • 005 HowToSellOut Chapter4

    Duration: 42min
  • 006 HowToSellOut Chapter5

    Duration: 12min
  • 007 HowToSellOut Chapter6

    Duration: 14min
  • 008 HowToSellOut Chapter7

    Duration: 13min
  • 009 HowToSellOut Chapter8

    Duration: 29min
  • 010 HowToSellOut Chapter9

    Duration: 07min
  • 011 HowToSellOut Chapter10

    Duration: 10min
  • 012 HowToSellOut Chapter11

    Duration: 07min
  • 013 HowToSellOut Chapter12

    Duration: 20min
  • 014 HowToSellOut Chapter13

    Duration: 04min
  • 015 HowToSellOut Chapter14

    Duration: 09min
  • 016 HowToSellOut Chapter15

    Duration: 29min
  • 017 HowToSellOut Chapter16

    Duration: 14min
  • 018 HowToSellOut Chapter17

    Duration: 10min
  • 019 HowToSellOut Chapter18

    Duration: 07min
  • 020 HowToSellOut Chapter19

    Duration: 09min
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