Percival Everett reads at City Lights

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, celebrated author Percival Everett stopped by the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco to celebrate the release of a tryptych of new books from Graywolf Press: Assumption, Damned If I Do, and Erasure.

About Assumption: “Half zen koan, half Jim Thompson, and 100% Percival Everett, the twined mysteries of Assumption provide all the lively satisfactions of ‘genre’ fiction, while describing yet another arc in the trajectory of Everett’s brilliant and protean career.”—Christopher Sorrentino

About Damned If I Do: A cop, a cowboy, several fly fisherman, and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories.

About Erasure: Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback.

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Percival Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of sixteen books, including Wounded, American Desert, Erasure, and Glyph. He lives in L.A. and British Columbia.

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