#percivaleverett — Public Fediverse posts

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks in time for your weekend reading. 📚

Featuring ✨

Erasure by #PercivalEverett
Marion by #LeahRowan
The Good Daughter by #KarinSlaughter
Ask Again, Yes by #MaryBethKeane
The Dragon Has Some Complaints by #JohnWiswell
Rivers of London by #BenAaronovitch
After Dunkirk by #LeeJackson
A Crafty Killing by #LorraineBartlett
How Music Works by #DavidByrne
Armored by #MarkGreaney
Ode to the Half-Broken by #SuzannePalmer
One Cursed Rose by #RebeccaZanetti

#bookstodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116754735735263804

Love this! Do you have a favorite Percival Everett book or books? He's written so many incredible ones. Mine are (and not in a particular order):

1. James: A Novel
2. The Trees
3. Erasure

#Books
#PercivalEverett

Der Literaturbetrieb liebt das Elend, solange es sich gut verkauft. Hier wird diese Obsession nicht nur verspottet, sondern seziert. Präzise, Boshaft, und mit einem Lächeln, das schmerzt. Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Cord Jefferson adaptiert den Roman Erasure von Percival Everett und verwandelt ihn in eine bitterkomische Abrechnung mit einem Kulturbetrieb, der Schwarze Erfahrung normiert, verengt und kolonisiert. (ARD, Free-TV-Premiere!)

And now I want to watch, American Fiction. #PercivalEverett

The brilliant Percival Everett will receive the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism for JAMES: A Novel. The event will be livestreamed on September 17th.

https://stowecenter.org/programs/stowe-prize-for-literary-activism/

#PercivalEverett
#Books
#JAMES: A Novel

Druckfrisch – Krass klug, charmant https://www.lesering.de/id/4941400/Druckfrisch---Krass-klug-charmant-dreist-Denis-Scheck-laessts-bluten/ #DieverdammtblutigeGeschichtederAntike #BeatrixGerstberger #MaddalenaFingerle #StefanvonderLahr #Bestsellerliste #PercivalEverett #AndreasEschbach #JuliaEngelmann #MitdeinenAugen #AndreaSawatzki #ChristophHein #MichaelSommer #IsabelAllende #GaeaSchoeters #Druckfrisch #DenisScheck #HeinzStrunk #TakisWürger #Buchkritik #TrudeTeige #ARDalpha #Spiegel #Dr.No #TV

I just finished James by Percival Everett. Damn, an extraordinary, harrowing, beautiful, vital work.

#James #PercivalEverett

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/james-percival-everett/7445787

#Quotes
#Books #PercivalEverett #James

1 Late to this party, I know, but I plowed my way James by #PercivalEverett this weekend and was impressed and moved. 🧵 #book #books #Novel #novels #BookSky

The 10 best audiobooks for summer https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/18/the-10-best-audiobooks-for-summer #Autobiographyandmemoir #PatriciaHighsmith #PercivalEverett #AgathaChristie #Biographybooks #DavidNicholls #Crimefiction #Romancebooks #AnnPatchett #ToveJansson #Audiobooks #AnitaDesai #Culture #Fiction #Books

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

"With Twain it seems more the case that we go on suspecting he hides some meaning, some message that we could probably use, behind the bushy eyebrows and mustache, but are less and less able to name or remember. He doesn’t quite haunt us." —John Jeremiah Sullivan for Harper's

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/twain-dreams-samuel-clemens-john-jeremiah-sullivan?src=longreads
#novels #MarkTwain #HuckleberryFinn #PercivalEverett

Read JAMES.

#FictionalCharactersLastWords
#HashtagGames
#HuckFinn
#PercivalEverett

#ThreeGoodThings

1. Percival Everett has won the Pulitzer Prize for JAMES.

2. Everett's Erasure.

3. Everett's The Trees.

#PercivalEverett
#PulitzerPrize
#Books

Congratulations to Percival Everett on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel, James!

"Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Jim, Huck's enslaved companion on the raft ride."

#PulitizerPrize #Fiction #PercivalEverett #Books #bookstodon

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5381150/pulitzer-prizes-2025

For anyone interested, Mr. Everett is currently reading:

"Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World"

by Amir Alexander

While I'm not a math guy, Mr. Everett sold me on it as a historical survey of math.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/infinitesimal-how-a-dangerous-mathematical-theory-shaped-the-modern-world-amir-alexander/8481812?ean=9780374534998&next=t

#Bookstodon #Books #PercivalEverett #AmirAlexander

Had the distinct pleasure of meeting author Percival Everett tonight at Arts & Letters Live here in Dallas. 📚

Looking forward to reading "James". I haven't read Huck Finn since high school.

Percival Everett Is Challenging the American Literary Canon

@time

https://time.com/7210599/percival-everett-james-literary-canon/

#Bookstodon #Books #PercivalEverett #ArtsAndLettersLive #James

If you don't fight against the Erasure, you too will disappear.

#FortuneCookieBasedOnABook
#HashTagGames
#PercivalEverett

This month’s best paperbacks: Percival Everett, Judith Butler and more https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2025/feb/19/this-months-best-paperbacks-percival-everett-judith-butler-and-more #PercivalEverett #CarolineLucas #KateAtkinson #JudithButler #Paperbacks #Culture #Books

Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.

#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television

#LitStudies
#Books