Parnassus Presents: Percival Everett with Ann Patchett

Parnassus Books is pleased to present Percival Everett in celebration of his new book, James. He is in conversation with our own Ann Patchett. This event was recorded live, in-store on Monday, March 25, 2024.
Buy a copy of James from Parnassus: tinyurl.com/4txntb34
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.
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Intro & Outro Music
"Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

[@LeslieZuckerwise-rx2oy]

I was lucky to be there live for this event. So great to be able to listen again. Finished the book today! I am sad it is over but will likely read this one again.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

The book sucked. Everyone knows it Only a small penis individual has a problem with Jim. (We'll just ignore that flat out racist implications that not even Mark Twain, who lived closer to slavery, cane up with)

[@rladyleo3]

I just finished Erasure, 5 Stars! Absolutely a brilliant writer! I will be reading James next!

[@margotha61]

Great interview about a brilliant book!

[@mitzikeithly5040]

Thank you for sharing this conversation!

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Everett supports the murder ofvthe descendants of lynchers (despite not being alive when the lynching happened). Talk about insecurity😊

[@aurielambert]

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