Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire

Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a variety of subjects and genres. Derek Maus proposes that the best way to analyse Everett's varied oeuvre is within the framework of Menippean satire, which focuses its ridicule on faulty modes of thinking.