A difficult interview subject
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