American Fiction

Monk is a novelist nobody will publish until he writes a book he means as a joke about what publishers want from him. Jefferson lets the joke sell. Jeffrey Wright plays Monk as a man who is also trying to put his mother in a good place and talk to a brother he does not know how to help. The family plot is not the B-story. The Amazon MGM trailer is the meeting and the pseudonym. The film is Monk deciding whether to sit on the panel about the book.