Percival Everett

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Percival Everett

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1. There are two ways to approach the race thing.

   2017, On the term “Black writers” in “Percival Everett, The Art of Fiction No. 235” in The Paris Review (Summer 2017), Eigene Worte

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2. I'm writing the West that exists. You have to remember that Westerns are complete mythology. If you talk about the historic West, a third of the cowboys were black.

   2015, On writing accurately about the West in “For Prolific Author Percival Everett, The Wilderness Is A Place Of Clarity” in NPR (2015 Sep 20), Eigene Worte

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3. The interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it.

   On irony versus humor in “Coming Home from Irony: An Interview with Percival Everett, Author of ‘So Much Blue’” in Los Angeles Review of, Eigene Worte

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