Glyph (1999) is the story within a story of Ralph, a baby who chooses not to speak but has extraordinary muscle-control and an IQ nearing 500, which he uses to write notes to his mother on a variety of literary topics based on books she supplies. In Frenzy (1997), Everett returns to Greek mythology where Dionysos' assistant, Vlepo, is forced to experience a 'frenzy' of odd activities, including becoming lice and bedroom curtains at different times during the story, which he narrates, all so he can explain what the experiences are like to Dionysos, the half-god. Also published in 1996 was a second collection of stories, Big Picture. Watershed is another of Everett's books with a western setting, this time contemporary, focusing on loner hydrologist Robert Hawkes, who meets a Native American small person who helps him come to terms with the inter-relation of people. 1996 brought two more books from Everett.

A parody of westerns and the politics of race and gender, which includes a cross-dressing George Armstrong Custer). In the novel, Curt Marder and his tracker Bubba search 'God's country' for a wife Marder might not even want to find, but who has been kidnapped by bandits. Returning to novels, Everett published his first book-length western, God's Country, in 1994. Stepping into the children's book marketplace, Everett authored The One That Got Away (1992), an illustrated book for young readers that follows three cowboys as they attempt to corral 'ones,' the mischievous numerals. Everett published two books re-fashioning Greek myths in 1990: Zulus, which combines the grotesque and the apocalypse, and For Her Dark Skin, a new version of the Greek playwright Euripedes' Medea. In 1987, Everett published The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories, a collection of short stories.

Cutting Lisa (1986 re-issued 2000) begins with John Livesey meeting a man who has performed a caesarean section that prompts the protagonist to evaluate his relationships. In this novel, David Larson returns from Vietnam and attempts to find the retarded son of a one-legged sheep rancher in Slut's Whole, Wyoming. Everett's second novel, Walk Me to the Distance (1985), was later re-interpreted with an altered plot as an ABC TV movie entitled Follow Your Heart. While completing his MFA degree at Brown University, Everett wrote his first novel, Suder (1983), about Craig Suder, a Seattle Mariners third baseman in major league slump, both on and off the field. Everett lives in Los Angeles, California.

American Desert by Percival Everett