Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building and Exile in Bookville are thrilled to co-present an evening with literary icon Percival Everett at the Studebaker Theater (410 S. Michigan Avenue) on Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m. A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize, and recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle, Everett is the author of more than 30 books. His novel Erasure was adapted into the critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated film American Fiction. At the March 28 book launch event, Everett will discuss his new novel James with author Gabriel Bump. James is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
Public tickets for the event are $10 and are on sale at fineartsbuilding.com/events/percival-everett. Pre-signed copies of James are available for preorder at exileinbookville.com and will be sold onsite at the event, with a 10% discount offered to event attendees for preorders and onsite purchases.
Percival Everett’s most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has a poetry collection forthcoming with Red Hen Press. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC.