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January 9, 2024
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as posted by the channelAmerican Fiction is a movie you can spend hours discussing. Based on Percival Everett's novel Erasure, the movie is a satire of what the publishing industry wants from Black authors. The film also belongs to a lineage of Black movies that look at selling out in the entertainment industryfrom CB4 to Hollywood Shuffle. But does American Fiction say anything new? Host Brittany Luse chats with Aisha Harris, NPR culture critic and cohost of Pop Culture Happy Hour, about her essay () on what American Fiction gets right and the cultural marks it misses.
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