“Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out”
By James Yeh, originally published in the New York Times (2020)
Photo by Joyce KimOnce you’ve finished ‘Telephone,’ the latest book by Percival Everett, you may be talking about it with another reader and finding that you disagree on what happened.
That is intentional.
“There are three different versions of this novel, they’re all published identically, and you can’t know which one you’re getting,” Everett said during a video interview from his home in Los Angeles. With an apologetic chuckle, he added: “It’s going to piss a lot of people off, I’m afraid.”
Continue reading at the New York Times.