Percival Everett, Begrudgingly
Everything is about identity. What is not? Over at VQR, Matthew Dischinger interviews Percival Everett, who expresses his views on the necessity of region and place in literature, good old-fashioned…
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“Percival Everett By Virgil Russell,” by Percival Everett
The prolific Percival Everett tackles the timeless psychic tug-of-war between fathers and sons with zigzagging, psychedelic verve in his twentieth novel Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Everett has mastered his…
Percival Everett on Franzen, Sexism and The Great American Novel
“I do not believe that apparent authoritative literary voices of validation would ever make such a grand claim about a novel written by a woman. I say this because I…
Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.