Everett, Percival. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2013.
I’ve only read one of Everett’s previous novels, Erasure, and loved it. I decided that acquiring his latest book would be a good way to begin reading the rest of his corpus. I am especially excited about its metafictional elements–any novel with a character named after the author is alright with me.
Bought on amazon.com.
Walker, Alice. Meridian. 1976. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003.
I received a desk copy of this book in the mail today. It’s one of the novels that I’m assigning in my African American Literature After 1960 course this May. I wrote a dissertation chapter on it, but have never taught it before. It’s an excellent fictionalization of the tension between the Civil Rights and Black Power strands of the 1960s black liberation movement.
Daniel Shank Cruz 