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.
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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)
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