A difficult interview subject
21 July 2024 at 04:13
Everett doesn't often validate specific interpretations or theories of his work. The fact that this work often manages to be simultaneously hilarious, ambiguous, deeply moving, and filled with a kind of muted anger at America complicates efforts to interpret either it or Everett's politics. When he is in the humor to indulge interpretations, he will often entertain a potential reading by saying that it's not what he intended, but, as far as he is concerned, the process of meaning-making, insofar as it can be said to be a duty, belongs to the reader aloneβand it is the reader alone, through their engagement with the text, who completes this process of meaning-making. Everett refuses to hold your hand or tell you what to think. from Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett [The Millions]
Percivalously
Percivalously