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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: An Overview of Everett’s Life and Career
    1. To Be (or Not to Be) from South Carolina
    2. An Everett in Motion Tends to Stay in Motion
    3. Five Novels, Four Residences
    4. A Relatively Young Man Goes West
    5. Farther into the City and Further into the Spotlight
    6. After Erasure, a Deluge of Publications
    7. Meta-Everett in Full Effect
  7. Chapter 2: Everett and Menippean Satire
    1. The Importance of Earnest Jesting
    2. Subversive and Degenerative Satire
  8. Chapter 3: Five Exemplary Menippean Satires
    1. The Forms, Topics, and Devices of Menippean Satire
    2. Formal Multiplicity
    3. Linguistic and Philosophical Multiplicity
  9. Chapter 4: Menippean Satire through Tonal Multiplicity
    1. Thematic Heterogeneity
    2. Grotesque
    3. Madness
  10. Chapter 5: The Menippean West
    1. Frontiers, Old and New
    2. Watershed Moments and Historical Wounds
    3. Unmaking Assumptions
  11. Conclusion: A Post-Soul (but Not Post-Racial) Postscript
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

Page 167 →Bibliography

Primary Sources

Novels

  • Suder. New York: Viking, 1983; repr., Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
  • Walk Me to the Distance. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1985; repr., Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.
  • Cutting Lisa. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1986; repr., Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
  • For Her Dark Skin. Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990.
  • Zulus. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1990.
  • God’s Country. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994; repr., Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
  • Watershed. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1996; repr., Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
  • The Body of Martin Aguilera. Camano Island, Wash.: Owl Creek Press, 1997.
  • Frenzy. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1997.
  • Glyph. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1999.
  • Erasure. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001; repr., New York: Hyperion, 2002; repr., St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2011.
  • Grand Canyon, Inc. San Francisco: Versus Press, 2001.
  • A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid (with James Kincaid). New York: Akashic Books, 2004.
  • American Desert. New York: Hyperion, 2004.
  • Wounded. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2005.
  • The Water Cure. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2007.
  • I Am Not Sidney Poitier. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2009.
  • Assumption. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2011.
  • Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2013.
  • So Much Blue. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017.

Poetry

  • re: f (gesture). Los Angeles: Black Goat / Red Hen Press, 2006.
  • Abstraktion und Einfühlung. Los Angeles: Black Goat / Red Hen Press, 2008.
  • Swimming Swimmers Swimming. Pasadena, Calif.: Red Hen Press, 2011.
  • Trout’s Lie. Pasadena, Calif.: Red Hen Press, 2015.

Page 168 →Short Fiction Collections

  • The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1987.
  • Big Picture. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1996.
  • damned if i do. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2004.
  • Half an Inch of Water. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.

Other Books by Everett

  • The One That Got Away (illus. Dirk Zimmer). New York: Clarion Books, 1992. (children’s book)
  • There Are No Names for Red (by Chris Abani, illus. Everett). Pasadena, Calif.: Red Hen Press, 2010.

Essays, Letters, and Other Uncollected Works

  • “Artist Statement.” In Percival Everett: Writing Other/Wise, ed. Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander, 77–78. New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 2014.
  • “Believers.” Callaloo 24.4 (Fall 2001): 1000–1014.
  • “Bull Does Nothing.” Callaloo 12.1 (Winter 1989): 179–83.
  • “Chemically Darkened Like Me.” Oxford American 78 (August 2012): 130–31.
  • “The Color of His Skin.” Letter to the Editor. New York Times Book Review, June 6, 2004, 4.
  • “The Devotion of Nuclear Associability.” Callaloo 22.1 (Winter 1999): 116–20.
  • Foreword. In Abdourahman A. Waberi, In the United States of Africa, trans. David Ball and Nicole Ball, vii–viii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books), 2009.
  • Foreword. In George C. Wolfe and Richard Taylor, Shackles, vii–ix. Frankfort, Ky.: Frankfort Arts Foundation, 1988.
  • Foreword. In Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature, ed. Charles Henry Rowell, xv–xvii. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
  • “Four.” While You Were Sleeping 25 (Fall 2003): 72.
  • “F/V: Placing the Experimental Novel.” Callaloo 22.1 (Winter 1999): 18–23.
  • “If (Again).” nocturnes: (re)view of the literary arts 1 (Fall 2001): 72–79.
  • “In the Dark a Blade.” Modern Short Stories (December 1988): 93–97.
  • Introduction. In Laird Hunt, The Impossibly, xiii–xiv. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2012.
  • Introduction. In Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible, 11–31. New York: Akashic Books, 2004.
  • “The Man in the Moon.” Shooting Star Review 5.1 (Spring 1991): 20–22.
  • “Meiosis.” Callaloo 20.2 (Spring 1997): 263–76; repr., Callaloo 24.2 (Spring 2001): 454–67.
  • “A Modality.” symplokē 12.1–2 (2004): 152–54.
  • “909.” In My California: Journeys by Great Writers, ed. Donna Wares, 121–25. Santa Monica, Calif.: Angel City, 2004.
  • “Object and Word.” Village Voice Literary Supplement, October 19, 2004, 87.
  • “Raising Horses, Writing Novels.” Speakeasy (Minneapolis) 1.4 (March/April 2003): 14–15.
  • “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Hungry Mind Review 45 (Spring 1998): 16.
  • “Riding the Fence.” Montana Review 8 (Fall 1986): 111–14.
  • “Rose Nose.” Aspen Journal for the Arts 1.2 (Summer 1982): 27–28.
  • “Signing to the Blind.” Callaloo 14.1 (Winter 1991): 9–11.
  • Page 169 →“Squeeze.” Callaloo 16.3 (Summer 1993): 24–30.
  • “Staying Between the Lines.” Callaloo 23.4 (Fall 2000): 1183–88.
  • “A Stiffer Breeze.” Callaloo 27.3 (Summer 2004): 616–20.
  • “Tesseract.” Bomb 126 (Winter 2013–14): 98–101.
  • “Why I’m from Texas.” Callaloo 24.1 (Winter 2001): 62–63.

Secondary Sources

  • Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical Works
  • Amfreville, Marc. “Erasure and The Water Cure: A Possible Suture?” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 180–88.
  • Baker, Houston A., Jr. “‘If you see Robert Penn Warren, ask him: Who does speak for the Negro?’: Reflections on Monk, Black Writing, and Percival Everett’s Erasure.” In I Don’t Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South, 121–50. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Bauer, Sylvie. “‘Fracture This Bone … and Find the True Anguish of Speech’: Disenacting the Body in Percival Everett’s Zulus.” In Mitchell and Vander, Percival Everett 37–57.
  • ———. “‘A good place to throw ashes to the wind’: ‘Revenir du pays des morts’ ou les soubresauts de la pensée dans Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, de Percival Everett.” Transatlantica 2013.1: 1–10. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017. http://transatlantica.revues.org/6381.
  • ———. “The Music of Words in Zulus.” In Maniez and Tissut 153–72.
  • ———. “‘Nouns, Names, Verbs’ in The Water Cure by Percival Everett, or, ‘Can a Scream Be Articulate?’” Revue française d’études americaines 128 (2011): 99–108.
  • ———. “Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon Inc.: Self-Reliance Revisited.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 257–68.
  • ———. “‘Private Turbulent Seas’: ‘Painting the Moon’ in Cutting Lisa, by Percival Everett.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/private-turbulent-seas-painting-the-moon-in-cutting-lisaem-by-percival-everett/.
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  • Bell, Madison Smartt. “Analysis [of ‘Hear That Long Train Moan’].” In Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Structure, 136–46. New York: Norton, 1997.
  • ———. “A Note on God’s Country.” Callaloo 28.2 (Spring 2005): 343–44.
  • Berben-Masi, Jacqueline. “Getting to First Base: Baseball as Organizing Metaphor in Suder.” In Julien and Tissut 23–28.
  • ———. “‘The Jailhouse Baby Blues,’ or Literal and Literary Prisons in Glyph by Percival Everett: Allegory, Irony, Self-Reflection, and Socio-Academic Analysis.” In Julien and Tissut 49–60.
  • ———. “Percival Everett’s Glyph: Prisons of the Body Physical, Political, and Academic.” In In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between, ed. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson, 223–39. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004.
  • Birat, Kathie. “Ordinary Voices: The Mocking of Myth in For Her Dark Skin.” In Julien and Tissut 81–89.
  • Bleu-Schwenninger, Patricia. “On the Necessity of Losing One’s Head in Order to Keep It in Percival Everett’s American Desert.” In Maniez and Tissut 131–52.
  • Page 170 →Bonnemère, Yves. “God’s Country: The Mythic West Revisited.” In Julien and Tissut 149–60.
  • Bragg, Beauty. “History (Deposed) by Percival Everett: An Account of Race, Writing, and Post-Soul Aesthetics in A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond.” In Mitchell and Vander, Percival Everett 18–36.
  • Buchanan, David. “The Barely Functioning Author in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Kritikos 11 (October/December 2014). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://intertheory.org/buchanan.htm.
  • Byers, Thomas B. “Erasure’s Ethics: Everett with and against Badiou.” In Maniez and Tissut 89–105.
  • Cannon, Uzzie Teresa. “A Bird of a Different Feather: Blues, Jazz, and the Difficult Journey of the Self in Percival Everett’s Suder.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 94–112.
  • Carmines, Amee. “Reclaiming the Greek Tradition in the African American Novel: Percival Everett’s Frenzy.” In Mitchell and Vander, Percival Everett 125–45.
  • Charles, John C. Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013.
  • Clary, Françoise. “Watershed and The Body of Martin Aguilera: The Representation of a Mixed People.” In Julien and Tissut 169–82.
  • De Lilly, Irene Rose. “Manifest Content without a Dreamer: A Freudian Analysis of Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Lux: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University 2.1 (2013). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/lux/vol2/iss1/10/.
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  • Déon, Marguerite. “Clichés and Cultural Icons in Percival Everett’s Fiction.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/cliches-and-cultural-icons-in-percival-everetts-fiction/.
  • Dickson-Carr, Darryl. “Percival Everett.” In The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction, 102–3. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
  • Dittman, Jonathan. “‘knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2’: (Re)Thinking Identity and Meaning in Percival Everett’s The Water Cure.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 3–18.
  • Dorris, Ronald. “Frenzy: Framing Text to Set Discourse in a Cultural Continuum.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 35–59.
  • Dumas, Frédéric. “The Preservationist Impulse in Percival Everett’s ‘True Romance.’” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 60–74.
  • ———. “Trout Fishing and Red Herring: The Meaning of Going Wild in Percival Everett’s Damned If I Do [sic].” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 225–42.
  • ———. “Trout Fishing and Woodworking: Digression in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” In Maniez and Tissut 49–72.
  • Eaton, Kimberly. “Deconstructing the Narrative: Language, Genre, and Experience in Erasure.” Nebula 3.2–3 (2006): 220–32. Accessed January 1, 2016. http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Eaton.pdf.
  • Page 171 →Farebrother, Rachel. “‘Out of Place’: Reading Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” MELUS 40.2 (Summer 2015): 117–36.
  • Feith, Michel. “The Art of Torture in The Water Cure, by Percival Everett.” Revue française d’études américaines 132 (2012): 90–104.
  • ———. “Black Bacchus? Signifying on Classical Myth in Percival Everett’s Frenzy.” In Julien and Tissut 91–118.
  • ———. “Blueprint for Studies in the African American (Neo)Baroque: John Edgar Wideman, Percival Everett.” Transatlantica 1 (2009): 1–18. Accessed January 1, 2016. http://transatlantica.revues.org/4266.
  • ———. “Hire-a-Glyph: Hermetics and Hermeneutics in Percival Everett’s Glyph.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 301–19.
  • ———. “Manifest Deathtiny: Percival Everett’s American Desert of the Real.” In Julien and Tissut 183–201.
  • ———. “The Well-Tempered Anachronism, or The C(o)urse of Empire in Percival Everett’s For Her Dark Skin.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/the-well-tempered-anachronism-or-the-course-of-empire-in-percival-everetts-for-her-dark-skin/.
  • ———. “Working the Underground Seam: Richard Wright’s ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ in the Light of Percival Everett’s Zulus.” In Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary, ed. Alice Mikal Craven, William E. Dow, and Yoko Nakamura, 161–76. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • Félix, Brigitte. “Of Weeds and Words: Percival Everett’s Poetry.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/of-weeds-and-words-percival-everetts-poetry/.
  • ———. “‘The One That Got Away’: Fabulation in Percival Everett’s Fiction.” In Maniez and Tissut 15–33.
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  • ———. “Percival Everett: Mediating Skin Color.” Aktuel Forskning (Syddansk University), June 2010. Accessed January 1, 2016. http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles//Files/Om_SDU/Institutter/Ilkm/ILKM_files/InternetSkrift/TeksterInternetskrift/JanGretlund.pdf.
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  • Gysin, Fritz. “The Pitfalls of Parody: Melancholic Satire in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” In Julien and Tissut 63–80.
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  • Hayman, Casey. “Hypervisible Man: Techno-Performativity and Televisual Blackness in Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier.” MELUS 39.3 (Fall 2014): 135–54.
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  • ———. “The Fabulous Destiny of Rosendo y Mauricio, or, Between (Good) Sense and Making Sense.” Callaloo 28.2 (Spring 2005): 297–303.
  • ———. “From Walk Me to the Distance to Wounded, or the Undesirable Appropriation of Frontier Justice.” GRAAT: Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours 7 (January 2010): 201–14.
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  • ———. “The Real and the Unreal, or the Endogenous and the Exogenous: The Case of Walk Me to the Distance and Wounded.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 243–56.
  • ———. “Settings and Beings in Percival Everett’s New Mexico Fiction.” In Maniez and Tissut 107–30.
  • ———. “Text and Paratext Interaction in Watershed.” In Julien and Tissut 119–31.
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  • ———. “An Interview with Percival Everett.” Callaloo 28.2 (Spring 2005): 377–81.
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  • ———. “Writing (Fat) Bodies: Grotesque Realism and the Carnivalesque in Percival Everett’s Zulus.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 269–85.
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  • Rutter, Emily R. “Barry Beckham’s Runner Mack and the Tradition of Black Baseball Literature.” MELUS 42.1 (April 2017): 74–93.
  • ———. “‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: A Contrafactual Reading of Percival Everett’s Suder and Bernard Malamud’s The Natural.” Aethlon 32.1 (Fall 2014/Winter 2015): 43–57. Saldívar, Ramón. “Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction.” In A Companion to American Literary Studies, ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine, 517–31. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • Sammarcelli, Françoise. “Vision and Revision in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/vision-and-revision-in-percival-everetts-erasure/.
  • Page 175 →Sánchez-Arce, Ana Mariá. “‘Authenticism,’ or the Authority of Authenticity.” Mosaic 40.3 (2007): 139–55.
  • Sanconie, Maïca. “The One That Got Away: A Number Adventure, or a Semantic Experiment?” In Julien and Tissut 39–47.
  • Schmidt, Christian. “Dissimulating Blackness: The Degenerative Satires of Paul Beatty and Percival Everett.” In Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, ed. Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue, 150–61. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
  • Schur, Richard. “The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature.” In Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon, ed. Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner, 235–54. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
  • ———. “The Mind-Body Split in American Desert: Synthesizing Everett’s Critique of Race, Religion, and Science.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 75–93.
  • ———. “Stomping the Blues No More? Hip Hop Aesthetics and Contemporary African American Literature.” In New Essays on the African American Novel: From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead, ed. Lovalerie King and Linda F. Selzer, 201–20. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Stewart, Anthony. “About Percival Everett: A Profile.” Ploughshares 40.2–3 (Fall 2014): 188–93.
  • ———. “‘Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?’: From Stereotype to Cosmopolitan to Grotesque in Percival Everett’s Suder.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 113–25.
  • ———. “Giving the People What They Want: The African American Exception as Racial Cliché in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” In American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey, ed. Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson, 167–89. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
  • ———. “Introduction: An Assembled Coterie.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 175–79.
  • ———. “Setting One’s House in Order: Theoretical Blackness in Percival Everett’s Fiction.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 216–24.
  • ———. “Talking about Race, Exposing the Desire for the Post-Racial, and Percival Everett’s Assumption.” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/talking-about-race-exposing-the-desire-for-the-post-racial-and-percival-everetts-assumption/.
  • Tissut, Anne-Laure. “Frenzy, Practical Philosophy, and Fictive Jokes.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43.2 (Summer 2013): 286–300.
  • ———. “Moments of Control: Reading Percival Everett’s Short Stories.” In Julien and Tissut 29–38.
  • ———. “Percival Everett’s The Water Cure: A Blind Read.” Sillages critiques 17 (2014). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/3496.
  • ———. “Zulus de Percival Everett: The Abecedary of Creative Transgression.” Confluences (Université Paris X, Nanterre) 24 (2004): 151–62.
  • Ulff, Clément-Alexandre. “Invisible Fathers: Investigating Percival Everett’s ‘Lower Frequencies.’” Lectures du Monde Anglophone 1 (March 2015). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/nvisible-fathers-investigating-percival-everetts-lower-frequencies/.
  • Vander, Robin. “When the Text Becomes the Stage: Percival Everett’s Performance Turn in For Her Dark Skin.” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 139–51.
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  • Vasquez, Zach. “Avant Garde to Old Testament: Percival Everett.” Creosote Journal, March 30, 2011. Accessed January 1, 2016. http://creosotejournal.com/2011/03/avant-garde-to-old-testament-percival-everett/.
  • Von Mossner, Alexa Weik. “Mysteries of the Mountain: Environmental Racism and Political Action in Percival Everett’s Watershed.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 30 (2009): 73–88.
  • Weisenburger, Steven. “Out West.” Callaloo 24 (1985): 489–90.
  • Willis, Sharon. The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
  • Wolfreys, Julian. “‘A Self-Referential Density’: Glyph and the ‘Theory’ Thing.” Callaloo 28.2 (Spring 2005): 345–57.
  • Wyman, Sarah. “Charting the Body: Percival Everett’s Corporeal Landscapes in re: f (gesture).” In Mitchell and Vander, Perspectives 126–38.
  • Yost, Brian. “The Changing Same: The Evolution of Racial Self-Definition and Commercialization.” Callaloo 31.4 (Fall 2008): 1314–34.

Interviews

  • Allen, Jeffrey Renard. “Interview with Percival Everett.” In Weixlmann 100–110.
  • Anderson, Forrest. “Teaching Voice and Creating Meaning: An Interview with Percival Everett.” Yemassee 11.2 (Spring 2004): 1–7. Repr. in Weixlmann 51–56.
  • “Author Percival Everett Talks Westerns, Serial Killers, and His New Novel.” inReads, November 28, 2011. Web. Repr. in Weixlmann 187–90.
  • “Author Values Background in Philosophy.” Houston Chronicle, June 30, 1985, 4.
  • Bauer, Sylvie. “Percival Everett: An Abecedary.” Transatlantica 1 (2013). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://transatlantica.revues.org/6369.
  • Bengali, Shashank. “The Wicked Wit of Percival Everett.” USC Trojan Family Magazine (Winter 2005). Repr. in Weixlmann 111–18.
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  • Bolonik, Kera. “Mules, Men, and Barthes: Percival Everett Talks with Bookforum.” Bookforum: The Book Review for Art and Culture 12.3 (October/November 2005): 52–53. Repr. in Weixlmann 93–99.
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  • Cruden, Jenna. “An Interview with Percival Everett.” DURA: Dundee University Review of the Arts, November 17, 2012. Accessed January 1, 2016. https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2012/11/17/percival-everett/.
  • DeMarco-Barrett, Barbara, and Marrie Stone. “Interview with Percival Everett.” In Weixlmann 148–53.
  • Dischinger, Matthew. “The Construction of Place: An Interview with Percival Everett.” Virginia Quarterly Review 91.3 (Summer 2015). Accessed January 1, 2015. http://www.vqronline.org/interviews-articles/2015/07/construction-place-interview-percival-everett.
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  • George, Lynell. “Parody That’s Personal.” Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2001, E1, E3. Repr. in Weixlmann 10–14.
  • Goyal, Yogita. “Coming Home from Irony: An Interview with Percival Everett, Author of ‘So Much Blue.’” Los Angeles Review of Books 23 Aug. 2017. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/coming-home-from-irony-an-interview-with-percival-everett-author-of-so-much-blue/,
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  • Medlin, Andrew, and Trevor Gore. “How We Mean: An Interview with Percival Everett.” The Pinch (University of Memphis) 29.2 (Fall 2009): 95–100. Repr. in Weixlmann 154–59.
  • Mernit, Judith Lewis. “What Do You Know? Author Percival Everett Defies Categories and Generalizations.” High Country News 45.16 (September 16, 2013). Accessed January 1, 2016. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.16/what-do-you-know.
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