Praise for Percival Everett:
โIf Percival Everett isnโt already a household name, itโs because people are more interested in politics than truth.โโMadison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble
โEverettโs talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison . . .โโ Publishers Weekly
โI think Percival Everett is a genius. Iโve been a fan since his first novel. He continues to amaze me with each novelโas if he likes making 90-degree turns to see whatโs around the corner, and then over the edge . . . Heโs a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him.โโTerry McMillan, author of Mama
A fictitious and satirical chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmondโs desire to pen a history of African-Americansโhis and his aidesโ belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, The History follows the letters of loose cannon Congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history.
Percival Everett is the author of 15 works of fiction, among them Glyph ,Watershed and Frenzy. His most recent novel, Erasure , won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and did little to earn him friends.
James Kincaid is an English professor at the University of Southern California and has written seven books in literary theory and cultural studies. These books and Kincaid himself have gradually lost their moorings in the academic world, so there was nothing left for him to do but to adopt the guise of fiction writer. Writing about madness comes easy to him.