5/24/2023 0 Comments Brandon taylor booksHere Taylor speaks with Everett about Grand Canyon, Inc., self-mythologies, and the American fantasy of the western.īrandon TaylorI’m so glad we get to talk. The pairing of their work is especially resonant.īrandon Taylor, whose novel Real Life was short-listed for the Booker Prize of 2020, wrote the introduction for last year’s reissue of Everett’s canonical novel Erasure (2001). Both Everett and Prince subvert the iconography of the West, interrogating its mythic visual and narrative tropes with a canny sideways view. is presented alongside work by Richard Prince, another of our great tricksters. In his novella G rand Canyon, Inc., published by Gagosian’s Picture Books imprint, he takes us on a bawdy trip through the American West via the larger-than-life character of Rhino Tanner. Percival Everett is a trickster, his writing always shifting and twisting in dazzling and surprising ways, his books dancing a two-step with the reader.
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