Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with Percival Everett / edited by Joe Weixlmann.

Author

Everett, Percival

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Weixlmann, Joseph

Description

xxvii, 201 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books, Everett has established himself as one of America's--and arguably the world's--premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his many honors since 2000 are Hurston/ Wright Legacy Awards for erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and three prominent awards for his 2005 novel Wounded--the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, France's Prix Lucioles des Libraires, and Italy's Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori Prize. Interviews collected in this volume, several of which appear in print or in English translation for the first time, display Everett's abundant wit as well as the independence of thought that has led to his work's being described as "characteristically uncharacteristic." At one moment he speaks with great sophistication about the fact that African American authors are forced to overcome constraining expectations about their subject matter that white writers are not. And in the next he talks about training mules or quips about "Jim Crow," a pet bird Everett had on his ranch outside Los Angeles. Everett discusses race and gender, his ecological interests, the real and mythic American West, the eclectic nature of his work, the craft of writing, language and linguistic theory, and much more."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Literary Conversations Series

Subject

• Everett, Percival > Interviews
• 1900-2099
• Novelists, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Novelists, American > 21st century > Interviews
• Fiction > Authorship

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction (starting p. xi) -- Chronology (starting p. xxv) -- On Writing: Visiting Author Brings a Love of Craft to Classroom (starting p. 3) / Fred Kirsch -- Author Everett Prizes Privacy (starting p. 7) / William W. Starr -- Parody That's Personal (starting p. 10) / Lynell George -- USC Department of English Chair Finds Writing a Chore and a Pleasure (starting p. 15) / Arash Markazi -- "I Get Bored Easily" (starting p. 18) / William W. Starr -- Invisible Man (starting p. 24) / Ben Ehrenreich -- Color Me Blind (starting p. 29) / Garry Mulholland -- The Books Interview: Percival Everett (starting p. 32) / Sean O'Hagan -- Percival Everett (starting p. 35) / Robert Birnbaum -- Teaching Voice and Creating Meaning: An Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 51) / Forrest Anderson -- Percival Everett (starting p. 57) / Rone Shavers -- Satiric Inferno (starting p. 71) / Peter Monaghan -- An Interview: May 3rd, 2005 (starting p. 78) / Anne-Laure Tissut -- "The South" (starting p. 90) / Jack Lanco -- Mules, Men, and Barthes: Percival Everett Talks with Bookforum (starting p. 93) / Kera Bolonik -- Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 100) / Jeffrey Renard Allen -- The Wicked Wit of Percival Everett (starting p. 111) / Shashank Bengali -- Uncategorizable Is Still a Category: An Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 119) / Anthony Stewart -- Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 148) / Marrie Stone -- How We Mean: An Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 154) / Trevor Gore -- An Interview with Percival Everett (starting p. 160) / Thea Brown -- The Tipping Poitier (starting p. 163) / Drew Toal -- The Bat Segundo Show #295 (Percival Everett) (starting p. 165) / Edward Champion -- Where's Everett? (starting p. 177) / Susan Salter Reynolds -- The Water Cure: "In Any Novel, It Is the Reader Who Completes the Tale" (starting p. 181) -- Percival Everett: Whites Want to Read "Black" (starting p. 184) / Tine Maria Winther -- Author Percival Everett Talks Westerns, Serial Killers, and His New Novel (starting p. 187) -- Key Resources (starting p. 191) -- Index (starting p. 195)

ISBN

• 9781617037597 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1617037591 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781617037603 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012045170

OCLC

• 815383675
• SCSB-12191356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library