Earlier this month, author Percival Everett put on a tuxedo to attend the Academy Awards with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna. First-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson, who adapted Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure” to make the film “American Fiction,” won for best adapted screenplay and delivered a rousing acceptance speech that was one of the evening’s highlights. “I like the film quite a bit, and I appreciate the fact that it is not my novel.
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- Author Percival Everett talks 'American Fiction' and his new book 'James'
Author Percival Everett will be at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on June 4 to discuss "James," followed by a showing of "American Fiction." Ahead of his appearance at the Coolidge, Everett sat down with ...
05/28/2024 - 7:15 am | View Link - James by Percival Everett: an enthralling reimagining of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of formerly enslaved Jim
(The Conversation) – James ... Huckleberry Finn.” (Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) This is a literary, writerly and scholarly novel. Everett expertly weaves ...
05/11/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link - Percival Everett
The American writer Percival Everett is enjoying ... and his latest novel, James, is already a best-seller in the United States. It’s a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of ...
05/5/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link - Where Jim tells his story | Review of ‘James’ by Percival Everett
Stepping into Huckleberry Finn’s world, Percival Everett has written Jim into being. Mark Twain ... new name — James; and then picks a violent route to get his freedom. If Twain’s attempt ...
05/3/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link - Percival Everett on reimagining ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
Everett also tackles the issue of book bans across the country, Twain’s use of the n-word in his literature and why Everett believes “it belongs there.” Conversation recorded on Thursday ...
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