Percival Everett discusses JAMES - POURED OVER Podcast Taping

Join in New York City on Thursday, November 21st at 6PM as we welcome New York Times bestselling author, to discuss on a live B&N podcast taping! This story is a masterful retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

Percival will be in conversation with Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Cord Jefferson (American Fiction, The Good Place, Watchman) and B&N Editorial Director and host of B&N's podcast, Miwa Messer, for this special event.

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ABOUT :

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

ABOUT :

PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.

ABOUT Cord Jefferson:

CORD JEFFERSON is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and director who has worked on some of the most complex and popular series of the past decade and has earned praise for being one of the most multifaceted and versatile storytellers.

Jefferson made his feature writing and directorial debut with “American Fiction” which won an Academy Award in the category of ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ and had garnered 5 total Academy Award nominations, including ‘Best Picture’ in 2024. Jefferson also won a Critics Choice Award, BAFTA Award, Film Independent Spirit Award and WGA Award for his screenplay, an adaptation of Percival Everett’s “Erasure” to which it was also awarded the prestigious, Paul Selvin Award by the WGA. Additionally, Jefferson was nominated for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a First-Time Theatrical Feature Film” at the DGA Awards, and the “Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures” at the PGA Awards.

The film took home 54 wins and received 147 nominations, and 8 honors after its world debut at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival where it received critical acclaim and won the festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award. MGM’s Orion pictures released the film in December 2023.

It has been announced that Jefferson will write and executive produce Amazon Prime Video’s limited series adaption of John Katzenbach’s novel “Just Cause” alongside acclaimed writer John Wells, starring Scarlett Johansson in her first major television role.

Jefferson’s recent credits are a powerhouse of critically acclaimed television series that include the groundbreaking limited series Watchmen, for which he won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing For A Limited Series alongside Damon Lindelof, for their episode “This Extraordinary Being.” Other credits include the philosophical comedy The Good Place, and drama series tour-de-force Succession. Among the accolades that Jefferson has earned for his work on these series are two Writers Guild Awards and an NAACP Image Award for writing The Good Place’s “Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy” episode. Jefferson was also the winner of the AFI, and has been nominated for the DGA, PGA and SAG awards.

Jefferson’s other credits include the HBO Max series Station Eleven; Netflix’s Master of None, where he wrote the episode “New York, I Love You”; Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore; and the Starz comedy series Survivor’s Remorse.

Prior to making his way into television, Jefferson was a journalist, most notably serving as the West Coast editor for Gawker. During his tenure in journalism, Jefferson also wrote for such outlets as The New York Times, National Geographic, NPR, USA Today, MSNBC, Bookforum, and The Daily Beast, among others.

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