American Fiction is a celebration of original Black stories getting a chance. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the film follows Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, played by Jeffrey ...

Ellison, is… Black.” “These books have nothing to do with African American studies,” Monk fumes. He taps one of his novels with a frustrated finger. “They’re just literature.” ...

Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison and ... [+] Erika Alexander as Coraline in Cord Jefferson’s 'American Fiction.' American Fiction has already won many awards, including People's ...

Jeffrey Wright’s exquisitely calibrated performance as the irascible novelist Thelonious Ellison, known as Monk, in “American Fiction” recently earned him his first Oscar nomination.

Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point ...

Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison alongside Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown in this smart comedy adapted from Percival Everett's book, Erasure. American Fiction ...

A white student challenges the word her Black professor writes on the blackboard in his college class on literature of the American South. After a brief back-and-forth, she declares herself ...

Roeliff Jansen Community Library will host a screening of the 2023 film "American Fiction" on Sunday, Feb. 9, from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) "American Fiction" - a satire about race ... tells the story of Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), an author and university professor who is told by his publishers ...