A special evening with American novelist, poet, and visual artist Percival Everett. In conversation with journalist Michael Ebert, editor in chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Everett reflects on his genre-bending literary oevre, the craft of writing, and his life as a writer whose work consistently challenges expectations of form, voice, and narrative. The discussion touches on several of Everett’s notable novels, including Erasure, recently reissued in German as Ausradiert by Carl Hanser Verlag, as well as his most recent novel James, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Author of more than thirty books, Everett moves fluidly across genres, continually questioning how stories are told and who gets to tell them.

Together, Everett and Ebert explore questions of perspective, authorship, and interpretation across Everett’s distinctive body of work: how literature reshapes inherited narratives, how satire and experimentation open new ways of thinking about race and identity, and how storytelling moves from the page into the political sphere, confronting American myths, racist stereotypes, and political certainties.

In cooperation with Stiftung Literaturhaus München