erasure

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Percival Everett, whose novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, had the idea for his latest book, James, when he was playing tennis.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

Erasure, as it were, happens at multiple levels.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

Erasure sends us down the wrong rabbit holes and obscures essential subterranean truths.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2023

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from Megan Asaka’s book “Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City,” published in September by the University of Washington Press.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Not always needs Erasure of some blessèd line of love For this more blest inscription.

From Kept for the Master's Use by Havergal, Frances Ridley