"James" author Percival Everett on race, language and art

[@sunu5520]

I bought and read this book because of this interview. It was brilliant, and I’ve been recommending it to as many people as possible.

[@ninastone9054]

I am interested in it as well. I think I might grab a copy

[@kendallmarchman]

This is one of the best author profiles I've seen in a while on the show. Gained a fan and I'm going to check out the new novel.

[@maryannecarlson5665]

I agree. I am thrilled by this piece about one of my favorite authors.

[@RandyChristianLee]

"I can't change this cultural tsunami that happened 400 years ago, and the waters of it are still waiting to recede." That was so deep. Sounds like I have some new audiobooks I need to listen to.

[@MamaTreNiner]

Brilliantly worded...RESPECT!!! 🏆

[@nietzschean3138]

It's not deep at all.

[@mildrumpus]

“James” is a book that lives up to the hype. 😎📚👍

[@wesleyratko7830]

My takeaway: I wish this man was my friend. I could listen to him talk forever. Wonderful writer, smart and funny. And so dignified.

[@ravenscry048]

What an amazing interview with an accomplished and artist man. Wow!

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

His work is trash

[@maryannecarlson5665]

Half an Inch of Water is the title of one of Everett's short stories collections. It's great.

[@Robert.Sheard]

The Trees was brilliant. Just picked up James and can't wait to read it.

[@steveconn]

That's nice Percival finally had a breakthrough with American Fiction (exploring other characters povs in novels and language a good angle). Will check him out. 🎉

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Why? He gets triggered over children's book that preached AGAINST racism.

[@celestialnubian]

I normally don't go for abstract but for some reason I like his paintings. This guy is a real renaissance man.

[@MamaTreNiner]

You can find something interesting and different every time you view some of them...Intriguing!!! 🏆👍🏾

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Interesting....you like supporting racists

[@MamaTreNiner]

@@aishabintabubakr4944 Care to explain HOW he's a "racist"?

[@celestialnubian]

@@MamaTreNiner Don't respond to him. He's a useless troll. We just thumb people like that down and keep it moving.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

@@MamaTreNiner Hmmm....maybe in "The Trees" how he endorsed the murdering of white people Emitt Till-style.....(or was that just his humor)

[@dbadagna]

Profound

[@PickyPippi]

I love Percival Everett! Erasure introduced me to his genius. Looking forward to reading James!

[@marydawkins4190]

Adding him to my authors list.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

The crazy guy screaming on his fentanyl overdose is a better writer....imagine being triggered over a book written in 1885....he's got some level of self-loathing.

[@marydawkins4190]

@@aishabintabubakr4944 2 things: If the message of the book is something that has not really ended, just continues in evolved form, then it's worth being upset. Is it any different than being triggered or judging others based on a book written 2000 years ago and not even by the alleged author?

[@horseygurl143]

All that success he's had with animals is a result of the fact that animals can tell the character of people. Super story!!!

[@Kimik-oy4pc]

Now I need to read his books.

[@angelacohen4531]

James is excellent. Perceval Everett seems like such a sincere, grounded soul.. Going to read his other books. Great voice..

[@thinktwice-me7ie]

What a wonderful human being. Love his writing, his humour and honesty

[@mililaniman]

Perceival's words have heart and humor. His books seem to have wisdom and wit.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Oh yeah, "My fiction is in the Afro-American philosophy section? The only thing black about this book is the ink!" Brilliant. ROTFL.... Brilliant

[@bhatkat]

Finally a guy who gets it. It's not the word, (the N word) but the intention and meaning behind it.

[@yolieswitzer9466]

Mellow gentleman. Beautiful dogs.😌

[@aamir-hk8px]

Very well represented show. The conversation doesn't race but stays with the listeners.

[@TBrl8]

Animals tell no fibs, he was right on that one.

[@cherylrleigh1912]

One of my all-time favorite novels is "Texaco" by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau. Both Everett and Chamoiseau have adeptly mastered the art of addressing diverse and distinctly sensitive subject matter while skillfully infusing it with humor.

[@AM-br4ix]

Reading this book now… enjoying it!!!

[@allanjacquadro870]

Best book I’ve read this year. ❤

[@florencecurrie7861]

Wonderful!!

[@QueenBDreamwalker]

Hopefully Percival will connect with Jim's Journey in Hannibal, Missouri that chronicles Black Life in that town before & after Mark Twain's writing. James is part of the exhibit 💜

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

The story wasn't about Jim, but Huck; yet Percival Everett is triggered by Huck Finn. Huck Finn was boring af and Mark Twain sucks as an author, so to be triggered by it demonstrates how insecure he is in his skin. Everett shoukd be laughed at

[@elizabethsoro3421]

Wow what a confident person.

[@DonnaMayStanish]

I never had an animal lie to me. Exactly ❤💯

[@stellab598]

Does anyone know the place or gallery of the art show by him? I will love to see it.

[@nancydorn2524]

Great video.

[@ShayJones-y9i]

He’s dope😊❤

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

You're right. He is a dope

[@bobbullethalf]

I like this guys style, people are horrible and I myself limit my interactions with them at times.

[@maxalburg5665]

one of the best book on race i've ever read - and its current- is Euel Arden's Down Here in the Warmth. its also a great depiction of what a current day "civil war" might look like. takes place in nyc. How can you go wrong with militia on the streets of manhattan. to quote this video - "if you're offended by strong language you've been warned." (the very first word of the book is the "N' word, he said in an interview he purposely did it as a protest against the banning of Huck Finn for its use of the word)

[@tiboregoldberger6817]

Africa Black Children Death Hunger Famine No Ship Food Truck Air Drops Hospitals Ambulance Electricity Humanitarian Aid In 2023 , an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 2:36

[@SlayerofFiction]

I must have read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer three times at least as a child, the only book I read more was "The Hobbit" I never cared for Huck Finn, it just didn't click well. Nevertheless the when the scary "N word" was banned it infuriated with me as those who were banning it, did not understand the context to which it was used, nor the story or intentions itself. Thank you for htis interview, I am going to check out James and see it from the other perspective although I never found Huck Finn rascist at all. I want to note that if you have not read anything from Fredrick Douglas, you're doing yourself a great disfavor.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

Read Library of America's Douglass cover to cover. Read Huck Finn again. It satirizes much more than slavery and consider whether Huck isn't a deeply sad character.

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

I loved the movie American fiction and currently reading God’s country.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Only the wealthy and powerful can be seen and heard. The remaining 96% stay invisible. As an award-winning yet utterly ignored and unknown author, I should know. 💪😎✌️

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Humility is not his strong suit

[@Adsd822]

The interviewers question about N word in his books was moronic. The question itself suggest she does not understand his writing. Having Him go beneath his intellect and explain that to her is nauseating. He should have left the interview or just said I don’t owe anything to anyone and I am black. Reminds me of interviewer asking Quentin Tarintino about violence and use of N word in his move Django unchained.

[@TylerD288]

Of course he didn't stay in South Carolina. Being from there myself, I don't blame him, I left too.

[@danielgolarz674]

CBS please talk about the out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers that's why we have teacher shortages I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL

[@romstar]

I like 😍 him! 😂❤A fellow misanthrope 😂

[@MamaTreNiner]

🏆💯👍🏾

[@skywriter9359]

I love mark Twain’s huckleberry Finn. Seems a little cheat to use it for his novel.

[@akcoop]

Erasure is an amazing reading…. unfortunately the movie sucks

[@UncleSam-USofA]

Race is indeed a money maker but sometimes just move on for a great America again. Not race hate

[@sunnyskye213]

Silly to have anothers 'perspective' of a CLASSIC!!!

[@celestialnubian]

@lazymp9046 He's just a troll who probably never read Twain.

[@pjmlegrande]

No

[@brianfergus839]

@@sunnyskye213 no

[@nietzschean3138]

The usual from black authors, same with other one note/one issue authors. Not able to create anything themselves so bastardise and piggyback off others, using cultural resentiment as fuel.

[@pjmlegrande]

Ok, Joe Goebbels

[@brianfergus839]

@@nietzschean3138 we see you

[@nietzschean3138]

@@brianfergus839 Good for you. All people have in reply is insults which says it all.

[@brianfergus839]

@@nietzschean3138 I didn’t insult you

[@nietzschean3138]

@@brianfergus839 Not quite but it's a silly veiled threat and the person above you insulted me.

[@robertplant2059]

Sure, another whiner stuck in the past. You should have name the bird get and education and a job, which is more to the heart of the issues. Boo hoo everyone hates me!

[@pjmlegrande]

I don’t hate you because I don’t know you. But I sure as hell didn’t understand a word you just wrote. Kinda gibberish-y

[@robertplant2059]

@@pjmlegrande Sorry, I get so frustrated by the BS whining of 1 race that cannot figure it out, while the rest do. I am a non white who believes in do not live in the past, where this race resides.