Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through… - Percival Everett
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through…
- Percival Everett
A metaphor cannot be paraphrased - Percival Everett
A metaphor cannot be paraphrased
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a colli… - Percival Everett
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a colli…
Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave. - Percival Everett
Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its … - Percival Everett
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its …
Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you. - Percival Everett
Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. - Percival Everett
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.
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