You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of American fiction. Are those human remains? Do you guys have a permit for that? But shut the fuck up, Philip. You don't talk to me like that. You want me to beat your ass? I'm just... Fuck out of you, Philip! I will eat your sweater vest for dinner. Always been a fucking douche. Listen, monk, you need some time off. Why don't you go back and spend a little more time with your family?

You know that all successful writers Fucking douche. Listen, Monk, you need some time off. Why don't you go back and spend a little more time with your family?

You know that all successful writers are tormented by their families.

You look fat.

Okay.

Welcome home, baby!

How's the fuck?

I don't feel like much of the writer lately.

Your books change people's lives.

And something I've written, haven't changed your life.

Absolutely. My dining room table was wobbly as hell. Oh my gosh. The book came out. It was like perfect. I'm a walking around. How's your brother doing? I still live in Tucson. What's wrong with Tucson? There's one gay bar and it's full of college kids. One of them asked me if I was Tyler Perry. I mean, Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right? Fuck you. Any news? Editors. They want a black book. They have one. I'm black, and it's my book. Look at what they expect us to write. Would you read an excerpt? Yo, Sharonda, where you'd be going in a hurry like that? If and you got to know, I was going to the pharmacy.

All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for American fiction, and the story

is as follows.

Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from

black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.

To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write

an outlandish black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy

and the madness he claims to disdain. The film is starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracy Ellis

Ross, John Ortiz, Erica Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Ray, and Sterling K. Brown.

It is written and directed by Cord Jefferson, and here to join me today for this podcast

review. I have Josh Parham.

Hello, hello. Cody Derrick's.

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