Conversations with Percival Everett / edited by Joe Weixlmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everett, Percival.

Contributor:

Weixlmann, Joseph, editor.

Series:

Literary conversations series

Literary Conversations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Everett, Percival--Interviews.

Everett, Percival.

Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.

Novelists, American.

Novelists, American--21st century--Interviews.

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

On Writing: Visiting Author Brings a Love of Craft to Classroom / Fred Kirsch / 1994 /, Fred Kirsch, 1994 3

Author Everett Prizes Privacy / William W. Starr / 1994 /, William W. Starr, 1994 7

Parody That's Personal / Lynell George / 2001 /, Lynell George, 2001 10

USC Department of English Chair Finds Writing a Chore and a Pleasure / Arash Markazi / 2002 /, Arash Markazi, 2002 15

"I Get Bored Easily" / William W. Starr / 2002 /, William W. Starr, 2002 18

Invisible Man / Ben Ehrenreich / 2002 /, Ben Ehrenreich, 2002 24

Color Me Blind / Garry Mulholland / 2003 /, Garry Mulholland, 2003 29

The Books Interview: Percival Everett / Sean O'Hagan/2003 O'Hagan/2003, Sean 32

Percival Everett / Robert Birnbaum / 2003 /, Robert Birnbaum, 2003 35

Teaching Voice and Creating Meaning: An Interview with Percival Everett / Forrest Anderson / 2003 /, Forrest Anderson, 2003 51

Percival Everett / Rone Shavers / 2004 /, Rone Shavers, 2004 57

Satiric Inferno / Peter Monaghan / 2005 /, Peter Monaghan, 2005 71

An Interview: May 3rd, 200s / Alice Mills Mills, Alice, Claude Julien Julien, Claude, Anne-Laure Tissut / 2005 /, Anne-Laure Tissut, 2005 78

"The South" / Alice Mills Mills, Alice, Jack Lanco / 2005 /, Jack Lanco, 2005 90

Mules, Men, and Barthes: Percival Everett Talks with Bookforum / Kera Bolonik / 2005 /, Kera Bolonik, 2005 93

Interview with Percival Everett / Jeffrey Renard Allen / 2005 /, Jeffrey Renard Allen, 2005 100

The Wicked Wit of Percival Everett / Shashank Bengali / 2005 /, Shashank Bengali, 2005 111

Uncategorizable Is Still a Category: An Interview with Percival Everett / Anthony Stewart Stewart, Anthony 2007 119

Interview with Percival Everett / Barbara DeMarco-Barrett DeMarco-Barrett, Barbara, Marrie Stone Stone, Marrie 2007 148

How We Mean: An Interview with Percival Everett / Andrew Medlin Medlin, Andrew, Trevor Gore / 2008 /, Trevor Gore, 2008 154

An Interview with Percival Everett / Thea Brown/ Brown/, Thea 2009 160

The Tipping Poitier / Drew Toat / 2009 /, Drew Toat, 2009 163

The Bat Segundo Show #295 (Percival Everett) / Edward Champion / 2009 /, Edward Champion, 2009 165

Where's Everett? / Susan Salter Reynolds / 2009 /, Susan Salter Reynolds, 2009 177

The Water Cure. "In Any Novel, It Is the Reader Who Completes the Tale" / I'Humanité / 2009 /, I'Humanité, 2009 181

Percival Everett: Whites Want to Read "Black" / Tine Maria Winther / 2010 /, Tine Maria Winther, 2010 184

Author Percival Everett Talks Westerns, Serial Killers, and His New Novel / inReads / 2011 /, inReads, 2011 187.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Everett, Percival L. Conversations with Percival Everett

ISBN:

9781617037597

1617037591

OCLC:

815383675