I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review

Podcast. We have another Book Club

episode for you this week and our editor M.J. Franklin, who you might have heard on

our previous episodes about Dean Copperhead or the Heaven and Earth grocery store is once again taking the reins.

Now this is an in-depth conversation about Percival Everett's book Erasure.

So for your spoiler verse, beware. You have been warned. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

Hello. Hello and

welcome to another book club episode of the book review podcast.

I'm M. J. Franklin. I'm an editor here at the New York Times Book Review and this week we're chatting

about Percival Everett's 2001 novel Eureshire. There are a lot of reasons

we chose to talk about this book as our book club pick, but the two main ones are, first,

it's just a great book. spoiler alert of how I feel about it. It's a book that goes deep and

gives readers so much to discuss.

And second, a little thing called the Oscars.

You may have heard of it.

Erasure was adapted into a movie called American Fiction,

which has been nominated for five Oscars at this year's Academy Awards

including Best Picture. The novel was critically acclaimed when it first came out in

2001 and now the movie has catapulted Erasurer back to the top of the zeitgeist and introduced it to even more readers.

And a book that's on everyone's minds and provides a lot to chew on that sounds like a book club pick for us.

This combo also seems fitting because we're on the eve of yet another Perciful Effort release.

His new novel, James, which is a retelling of Huckleberry Finn told from Jim's perspective comes out later in March.

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