A scathingly hilarious satire about an African American writer facing an industry that reduces Black storytelling to trauma and poverty narratives. Jeffery Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison who is constantly being told by his agent that his intellectual novels just don’t sell. Cynically, under a pseudonym, he puts together a parody of “ghetto”... 

    A scathingly hilarious satire about an African American writer facing an industry that reduces Black storytelling to trauma and poverty narratives. Jeffery Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison who is constantly being told by his agent that his intellectual novels just don’t sell. Cynically, under a pseudonym, he puts together a parody of “ghetto”... 

    A scathingly hilarious satire about an African American writer facing an industry that reduces Black storytelling to trauma and poverty narratives. Jeffery Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison who is constantly being told by his agent that his intellectual novels just don’t sell. Cynically, under a pseudonym, he puts together a parody of “ghetto”...