Abstract: Percival Everett, an innovative writer, and Distinguished Professor at University of Southern California, has published almost 30 books, including novels, short stories and poems, and the best-known works are: God's Country (1994), Glyph (1999), Erasure (2001), I'm Not Sidney Poitier (2009), Assumption (2011), and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (2013). On October 1, 2016, Wang Yukuo interviewed Percival Everett in Shenzhen, China, in which Everett commented on the issues of the literal representation of American society, the representativeness of African American writers, the intertextuality of different texts, and the relationship between an individual writer and literary traditions. He not only interrogates the well-accepted notion of canonicity, but also makes fun of various subjects with regard to race, which reveals the new development of African American literature.

Key words: Percival Everett, African American literature, race, author, literary tradition