Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.