Percival Everett & David L. Ulin
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Percival Everett in conversation with David Ulin
January 24, 2018
Percival Everett has been called “one of our culture’s preeminent novelists, a nonpareil ironist-satirist.” (LA Times). He is the author of nearly 30 books, in multiple genres, including Erasure, I’m Not Sidney Portier, and his latest novel, So Much Blue. The Boston Globe raved about So Much Blue, saying, “Three stories, scattered across time . . . taken together they add up to a masterpiece." NPR called So Much Blue, “a generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America's most under-recognized literary master.” Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, and the recipient of the Academy Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Believer Book Award, and the 2006 PEN USA Center Award for Fiction.
David L. Ulin is the award-winning author, most recently, of the novel, "Ear to the Ground." A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, one of his eight previous books is "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles," that was shortlisted for the PEN/diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. He is the previous book critic and book editor for The Los Angeles Times.
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry and a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire, philosophical fiction and poetry. His books are often satirical, aimed at exploring race and identity issues in the United States. Everett is best known for his novels Erasure, adapted as the Academy Award-winning film American Fiction, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees. His recent book, James, is a reimagining of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of runaway slave Jim. Everett has been awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, Creative Capital and Guggenheim awards, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. The former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Black Mountain Institute, and the Lannan Foundation. Most recently, he edited the Library of America’s Didion: The 1960s and 70s, the first in a three volume edition of the author's collected works.
