The fresh prince, dethroned

A FEW YEARS AGO, recalls Paul Beatty, author of ''The White Boy Shuffle," he and fellow novelist Darius James (''Negrophobia") were complaining that although they admired the rhetoric of the best-known black writers, on most days they preferred ''the black bon mot, the snap, the bag, the whimsy" of comedian Richard Pryor, say, or goofball rapper Biz Markie to the ... (Full article: 378 words)

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