@EverettStudies

The discussion and study of Percival Everett's literature and art.

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Everett's next novel has a cover and a synopsis! panmacmillan.com/authors/per…

Serious Music by Percival Everett

It turned out that my music had never left me. It had been stolen, yes, but not stolen away. I had simply never been free to play it . . . When Arthur…

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George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_georgeAug 4
Book manuscript submitted! Our essay collection with Manchester UP has a heck of a lineup!
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George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_georgeJul 13
Excited to sign a contract with @manchesterup for my next academic book project - a co-edited collection (with Keith Mitchell) on the work of Percival Everett!
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Everetts be out here in two languages in the same non-native country
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(in Barcelona)
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– at Naples, Campania
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A great new article on Telephone and Ali Smith’s How to Be Both in C21! @BACLS_official c21.openlibhums.org/article/…

"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the...

Many of the formal innovations of contemporary fiction arise from a collective sense of ceaseless crisis—a recognition that traditional modes of storytelling, forged in earlier cultural climates, may...

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I can’t find a press release or details yet, but it turns out Everett’s next novel has a title and a release date! panmacmillan.com/authors/per…
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orenda.lectora@marowalFeb 19
Replying to @librofilos
Los árboles de Percival Everett @EverettStudies @deconatus La Joven del té de Lisa See @lisasee
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Published last month!!

Haunted Laughter: Spectral Justice and Satirical Memory in Percival Everett’s The Trees

This article reads Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021) as a contemporary experiment in how the novel can reckon with the U.S.’s lynching archive. Focusing on the recurring mutilated corpse, the set...

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George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_george5 Dec 2025
I have an essay on Percival Everett's 'The Trees' in this fantastic cluster. Link below!
David Hering@hering_david4 Dec 2025
For @ASAP_Journal I co-edited, with Emmy Waldman, a cluster of essays on a subject close to my heart, contemporary cultural hauntings. We had a fantastic set of contributors, and it's live for you to read now!
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New research article on James up at @OrbitJournal! orbit.openlibhums.org/articl…

Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) 

This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that,...

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George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_george7 Nov 2025
A short piece I wrote last year - “Just in Time: Percival Everett’s ‘Erasure’” - has been published by the Journal of American Studies. In it, I discuss my PhD research, Everett’s work, careers, and cultural moments. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Another new research article in 'Critique' - this time on 'James' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Meta-Minstrelsy and Market Logics in Percival Everett’s James

Drawing from genre theory and theories of the literary marketplace, this article examines how Percival Everett’s James critically engages with the racialized expectations placed upon Black authors ...

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RIP Graham Greene!
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George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_george11 Aug 2025
My book has a pre-order date! routledge.com/Hybrid-Novels-…

Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century

The phrase “post-postmodernism” has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean? Scholars have defined the term in various, often contradictory ways....

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The @BL_EcclesInst’ Douglas W Bryant Annual Lecture last month: youtu.be/HrO_Txkua38?si=ZCiJ…
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This was a fantastic talk from Percival - beginning, in Everettian fashion, with “I am not Percival Everett…”
George Oliver Kowalik@kowalik_george16 Jun 2025
At @BL_EcclesInst this evening!
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New research article on Everett, ‘The Trees’, and the “Trauma Plot” by Gerald David Naughton published in ‘Critique’ this month! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Percival Everett, Jason Mott, and the “Trauma Plot” in Contemporary African American Literature

This article is about two varying approaches to trauma in contemporary African American literature. The article is comparative in nature, examining representations of race and trauma through an ana...

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The Bookseller
@thebookseller13 May 2025
Last night, Percival Everett (@EverettStudies), Asako Yuzuki and Alexei Navalny were named among the winners of this year’s British Book Awards, revealed in a star-studded ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London 👇 thebookseller.com/news/the-b…

The British Book Awards Book of the Year winners revealed including Percival Everett, Asako Yuzuki...

Percival Everett, Asako Yuzuki and Alexei Navalny were named among the winners of this year’s British Book Awards, revealed in a star-studded ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, on 12th May.

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