Film Pick of the Week: American Fiction - review by Yvette Huddleston

Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, this smart comedy-drama from TV writer and debut feature film director Cord Jefferson is a deft, funny and thought-provoking satire. Theolonius ‘Monk’ Ellison is a humanities professor at a west coast university. Also a published author, Ellison has written a number of highbrow literary novels that have neither made him any money nor brought him much acclaim.

This infuriates him as he feels strongly that Black writers who produce this kind of work are pandering to the wishes of white gatekeepers in the publishing industry. To make a point, Ellison writes a spoof crime novel, My Pafology, which is full of the kind of tropes that enrage him, under the pseudonym of Stagg R Leigh.

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