American 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 industry: from
CB4 to
Hollywood Shuffle. But does
American Fiction say anything new? Host Brittany Luse chats with Aisha Harris, NPR culture critic and co-host of
Pop Culture Happy Hour, about her
essay on what
American Fiction gets right — and the cultural marks it misses.
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