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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Percival Everett : The Trees
Description: Todayâs guest, Percival Everett, author of twenty-one novels, four short story collections, six collections of poetry and a childrenâs book, has also been a horse and mule trainer, a jazz guitarist, a fly fisherman, a rehabilitator of mandolins, and an abstract painter. He is, however, best known for his âgleefully unhingedâ (New York Times) hard-to-categorize novels, books that engage with the tropes of genre (e.g. detective novels, Westerns, Greek myths) and subvert those same tropes, often in the service of looking at the stories America likes (and more notably, doesnât like) to tell about itself. We talk to...