“One of the wonderful things about libraries is that when you're looking for one book, it's surrounded by other books that may not be connected to it. That's what you get (online) with links, but (in libraries) no one's decided what the links are." Everett's latest...
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller...
Having never read Huckleberry Finn ( To Kill A Mockingbird was the school text of the seventies) or the books of Percival Everett, James was read with no influence/underlying thoughts of Mark Twain although the plot of the 'original' book was familiar James is a simply superb novel- this ...
1 This symposium, organized by Anne-Laure Tissut (ERIAC, EA4705), echoes and prolongs the reflections on Percival Everett's work sparked by a conference that took place in Rouen in 2013 in the presence of the author. While the previous symposium investigated questions about the American West...
The New York Times included the novel on its list of 100 best books of the 21st century. Monk’s complaints in Erasure echo those made by Everett three years later upon the publication of his novels American Desert and A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond ...
poetic form; temporality; literary tradition; postpostmodernism; Percival Everett; new media; hypernarrative; temporal structure; hypergraphical; hypernarrator 1. Introduction To write about lyric poetry is to enter from the outset an impossibly contested territory. Competing historiographies variously ...
Percival Everett has published almost thirty books of fiction in forty years, and The Trees is his 22nd novel. It revisits ideas from Everett’s earlier works while asking questions that, in some ways, tie his oeuvre together—these questions can be linked to temporality and history, problemati...