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Matthew McKnight

Matthew McKnight is a writer and editor living in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in The Point, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He was a 2019–2020 Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY’s Graduate Center in support of a forthcoming biography of Albert Murray.

A colorful mosaic portrait of Percival Everett.

Without a Reader

“The mere fact that I want to write fiction for a livingis evidence that I’m mentally deficient,” Percival Everett told an interviewer in 2002. “But I do want to participate in making truth, and I can’t make it without a reader. . . . The work isn’t complete until ...