MAY 18
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BY PERCIVAL EVERETT
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Percival Everett is uneasy discussing what he does. A 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the novel , he is among the most prolific, and provocative, of contemporary American authors, yet he’s more interested in his readers—how we inhabit (and, in a very real sense, animate) his writing. Among its other benefits, this point of focus allows him a certain equanimity. “I don’t feel stress about work,” he confided recently. “I’m very fortunate in that way. When I sit down to work, I don’t have to do any throat clearing. I just start working. I start where I stopped.” For this reason, perhaps, reading Everett’s novels feels like participating in an ongoing conversation
