Percival Everett: podcast appearances and interviews

Percival Leonard Everett II, born on December 22, 1956, is an American author and a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has characterized himself as pathologically ironic and has written across a wide range of genres including western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire, and philosophical fiction. Everett's literary work frequently employs satire to examine issues of race and identity in the United States. He is known for his novels Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. His 2024 novel James, also a finalist for the Booker Prize, received several awards including the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel Erasure was adapted into the film American Fiction in 2023, directed by Cord Jefferson and featuring actors such as Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Leslie Uggams.