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Podcast: The Goggler Podcast
Episode: The Goggler Podcast #503: American Fiction
Description: Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review Cord Jefferson’s “Best Picture” nominated satire, American Fiction.
American Fiction is now available to purchase on VOD.
Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Based on the novel Erasure by Perci...