Erasure
Novel by Percival EverettWikipedia
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Oct 8, 2026
Dan SinykinGUEST
In fact, it's gone through several involutions.
Dan SinykinGUEST
Percival Everett wrote Erasure 25 years ago.
Dan SinykinGUEST
You know what I mean? It's not like these questions of one's identity is political and people in the publishing industry might encourage you to foreground or not foreground certain aspects of your identity in certain kinds of ways.
Dan SinykinGUEST
My God.
speaker_1HOST
It just can't.
speaker_1HOST
It cannot replicate that delicate kind of meandering interiority of a 400-page novel.
speaker_1HOST
It can only trade.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, I love that word, trade.
speaker_1HOST
They completely tear them apart.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
speaker_0HOST
Over the next hour, we are gonna look at how the most ambitious filmmakers of the last 10 years stopped treating novels like, you know, scripts with the formatting stripped out.
speaker_1HOST
Right, which is what a lot of bad adaptations do.
Josh SilverGUEST
So that those combined, I was like, I'm tapping out of this profession.
Josh SilverGUEST
And I went and like, uh, yeah went and um retrained as a nurse and sort of like got myself out of that because it just all felt I don't know I was still figuring out who I was and then when I started nursing which I really enjoyed suited me a very busy job and I loved that and then I started writing and I wrote some young adult books just because those were the stories that came to me, but I'd always thought about, and I'd read Yellowface, which is obviously very inspirational to me, by Eric Lank, and Erasure by Percival Everett, and then I watched American Fiction, which is the film version of it, and I was just like, this shit continues, this continues, and it's still going, and it happens in my community, and there are...
Josh SilverGUEST
many versions of this.
Josh SilverGUEST
And the story should keep being told.
Kaija StraumanisHOST
Read that [laughs]
Brian WoodHOST
Metafiction becomes consciousness, Infinite Jest, and then last, the Percival Everett, Erasure.
Chad PostHOST
Oh.
Brian WoodHOST
Metafiction becomes a critique of literary institutions.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
There are lots of, I mean, this was a common, a common issue, a common problem.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then of course, most recently, I think Percival Everett writes about this in Erasure.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then you see it in the film, American Fiction.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
Yeah.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
I mean, this was a common issue, a common problem.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then, of course, most recently, I think Percival Everett writes about this in Erasure, and then you see it in the film American Fiction.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
what it means to kind of get boxed into a identity category as a writer.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
I mean, this was a common issue, a common problem.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then, of course, most recently, I think Percival Everett writes about this in Erasure, and then you see it in the film American Fiction.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
what it means to kind of get boxed into a identity category as a writer.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
There are lots of, I mean, this was a common issue, a common problem.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then, of course, most recently, I think Percival Everett writes about this in Erasure, and then you see it in the film American Fiction.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
what it means to kind of get boxed into a identity category as a writer.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
I mean, this was a common issue, a common problem.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
And then, of course, most recently, I think Percival Everett writes about this in Erasure, and then you see it in the film American Fiction.
Tess ChakkalakalGUEST
what it means to kind of get boxed into a identity category as a writer.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Anita ChikatourHOST
So the next book we're going to do is James by Percival Everett.
Anita ChikatourHOST
And this is, it'll be my first book, although I keep meaning to read Erasure, which the book, American Fiction, right? The movie, sorry, the movie American Fiction is based on.
Anita ChikatourHOST
But we're sort of, and Tata says that we don't need to read Aquaberry Finn because it's kind of like, take on Huckleberry Finn? Is that right, Todd? It's the retelling of Huckleberry
Todd LawrenceHOST
Finn from Jim's point of view.
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