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Author Percival Everett talks about his latest bod,
Erasure, and on being a writer
TONIGHT
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By Kevin Burns
THE BATTALION
Fiction writer Percival Everett will visit Aggieland for a
reading at 7 p.m. in Bernie’s Cafe Express-O.
Everett is the author of 15 books, and his latest book.
Erasure, was released in October. He is in his fourth year as
the head of University of Southern California’s English
department and teaches literary theory, fiction writing and an
experimental workshop.
in present-
D.C., and
character
Everett was invited by
Texas A&M-housed scholarly
journal of African American
Arts and Letters, Callaloo.
Callaloo is a 25-year-old pub
lication that began in Baton
Rouge, La., and has been
located in Kentucky and
Virginia.
“Callaloo is a great pub
lication,” Everett said. “It’s
my first choice of venue for
publishing work because
the work inside is always
so good.”
Erasure is set
day Washington,
around the
Thelonious Ellison.
“Basically he is an experi
mental novelist, not unlike
me, and he’s dealing with the
fact that he’s often told by the
publishing world that his
work is not black enough —
left to wonder what that
means,” Everett said.
Everett said that Erasure is
not a book about him, but it is
very personal and closer to
himself than other books he
has written.
“It’s certainly not autobio
graphical,” said Everett.
“Although I certainly share
more with [Erasure's, main]
character than any other of
my characters.”
In the past, Everett has
been accused of not revealing
all the answers to his books in
favor of making readers labor.
“I suppose that’s true,”
Everett said. “I think a reader
needs to do some work too.
After all. I’m working, so
why not everybody else?”
Everett, hesitant to say
how his novel speaks to soci
ety or what it should mean,
said he, the novelist, is not the
correct person to address its
meaning.
“The writer is always the wrong person to captrai
Everett said. “If I could say it succinctly, then I
wouldn’t have to write the novel.”
Everett said his novel is a statement “against the
ization of any art.” and as a novel, it does not haveanti
“I have questions,” he said. “1 pose them, and
writer is already evidence that I'm not somebodytolii
It's there, what 1 think, what I see, and it’s uptothera
figure out what they are going to figure out... I donik
picture of the world that I want to impose on anyone
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