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Virtual - Beyond the Page with Percival Everett

Program Type:

Author Event

Age Group:

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

Those interested in attending from home can register and receive the Zoom link directly from: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3UDNRZOFR_uxMoTPxM7iHw#/registration

Join us for the latest live, virtual author event made possible through WPL’s participation in Illinois Libraries Present. Industrious, irreverent, humble–though he may deny the accusation–Percival Everett, like his fiction, defies categorization. 

His most recent novel, James, earned both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award, and his 2001 novel Erasure inspired the film American Fiction, which received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024. Everett’s other titles include Dr. No, The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Despite these accomplishments, he remains devoted to reviewing his own work critically, and indeed his writing process involves intensive research and revision. 

Tune in for our conversation with Percival Everett to get a glimpse beyond the page. Brandis Friedman will moderate the event. Friedman is a writer and anchor for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight and Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, and also serves as a champion for libraries.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of the Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). 

ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Closed Captioning are provided for all events by default—no special request needed.

If a patron needs accommodations not listed, the member library should email illinoislibrariespresent@ila.org.
 

 

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