Satire is a dangerous game In Hollywood, Billy Wilder once observed.
All mobilize satiric weaponry humor, irony, even ridicule in advancing their perspectives.
His work supposedly is not satiric enough nor Black enough for him to register success.
(L-R) Jeffrey Wright in ‘American Fiction,’ Willem Dafoe in ‘Poor Things’ and Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’Everett
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By contrast,American Fictionconfronts arcane targets ranging from academia to publishing to racial politics.
The book,My Pafology, is re-titledFuck, and it makes him at once rich and humiliated.
The producers ofAmerican Fictiondont expect to achieve anything vaguely resembling the success of the mythical project it describes.
And that, as Percival Everett would say, represents a demanding pafology.
