Thelonious “Monk” Ellison who the film centers around ... is undeniably the most significant part of American Fiction. This is why watching each of them stand firmly in their beliefs and ...

Price: $12.79 (reg. $17) Written and directed for the screen by Cord Jefferson, American Fiction follows Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a struggling novelist who's fed up with the literary ...

Everett gives James the gift of language, and James writes his account of his travels with a stolen pencil stub—one which ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

From John O’Hara to Claire Jiménez, via Nabokov and Maya Angelou, these works showcase cultural cross-over in American writing ...