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'James' Author Percival Everett on Freedom, Violence, and the Lure of 'Huckleberry Finn'
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett on 'James' Doubleday Books/Michael Avedon/Design by Leah Romero A few months ago, I...
‘American Fiction’ Author Percival Everett Explains Why N-Word Is ‘Inoffensive’ in the Right Context...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 months agoHis new novel “James” tells the story of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” from enslaved...
Percival Everett Is Messing With You
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett is a compulsive problem solver who doesn’t care much whether he ultimately arrives at a solution. As he told Paris Review seven years...
Percival Everett's New Novel Is Destined to Become a Modern Classic
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett's New Novel Is a Modern ClassicSarah Kim Sarah Kim James centers on a seminal...
The Power of Percival Everett: America’s Incendiary Man of Letters
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Power of Percival EverettOprah Daily With a lifetime achievement award from the National Book...
US authors Strout, Everett among Booker Prize finalists
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmerican authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland,...
Percival Everett, Ling Ma among winners of $175,000 prizes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPercival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year's most honored writers, are among eight...
An Acclaimed New Novel Retells Huck Finn From Jim’s Perspective—or Maybe Something Sneakier Is Going...
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett’s James is being marketed as a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...
Watch ‘American Fiction’ Director Cord Jefferson and Author Percival Everett Unpack the ‘Surprises’...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 5 months ago“American Fiction” writer-director Cord Jefferson knew the best way to capture the strangeness of...
How Oscar-buzzy 'American Fiction' defangs Percival Everett's scathing novel 'Erasure'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months ago'American Fiction,' an Oscar-buzzy film starring Jeffrey Wright, began as Percival Everett's...