SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

The brand-new edition Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You—originally published in 2014, in McSweeney’s 48—is available now.

Now a major motion picture, Sorry to Bother You offers a raucous view into class, politics, and race in a dystopic (but all too real) modern-day Oakland, California. This screenplay shows us code-switching as high art, and what it takes in today’s world to climb that capitalist ladder.