From the opening pages, Percival Everett's So Much Blue is very much the cliché you hope it will not be. The artist, past the peak in his life and career, putting his all into one last great work. He wonders if it is his masterpiece, hoping no one ever lays eyes on it. The artist, reflecting back on...
Many of these earlier stories lack the subtlety that I love so much in his more recent work. Some of them that don't have it are strong stories anyway, but they are more "ordinary" shorts, for lack of a better word. Some of the stories that do have that subtlety are more like sketches than stories, ...
Excellent stories. I wish there were 50 more.
Even though I'm only giving it 4 stars, I think this is my favorite of his books of poems. The first poem, Zulus, is the best, in my opinion. It treats more overtly themes he lightly touches in his fiction. I liked it very much, and I saw/heard echos of his most recent work (Percival Everett by Virg...
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