Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss Erasure By Percival Everett
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, March 16, 2025
3:30-5:00 pm PST
INVERNESS (North Bay) location
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Erasure
Percival Everett
2001, 272 pages
Erasure was selected as #20 in the recent NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st C. More than 20 years before it was made into an Oscar-winning movie, Everett’s deft literary satire imagined a world in which a cerebral novelist and professor named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison finds mainstream success only when he deigns to produce the most broad and ghettoized portrayal of Black pain. If only the ensuing decades had made the whole concept feel laughably obsolete; alas, all the 2023 screen adaptation merited was a title change: “American Fiction.”
Meeting organizer:
Kirsten Miclau
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org
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