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Lookout Local Santa Cruz · 2d

Reimagining Huckleberry Finn: National Book Award-winning author Percival Everett to speak on campus May 4

By Dan White Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz this weekend for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read.
Lexington Herald-Leader on MSN.com · 4d

Famed KY horseman chronicles madcap life of horses, bourbon, redemption in memoir

In his memoir, “Dark Horses,” Arthur Hancock III describes a Shakespearean drama of fathers, sons, racehorses and redemption, so wild that it even includes the Bluegrass Conspiracy.
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Huckleberry Finn: Sanitizing literature

An English professor from Auburn University has “sanitized” Mark Twain’s masterpiece by replacing all 219 uses of the word “nigger” with “slave.” From our morning news briefing to a ...
Florida Courier · 14d

Author provides a touching homage to Huckleberry Finn’s Black friend

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a rare moment in 19th century American fiction in which an enslaved Black man teaches a white person to treat others with respect.
The Cincinnati Enquirer on MSN.com · 14d

Hyde Park project latest test to see if Mark Twain was right about Cincinnati | Opinion

The quote about Cincinnati being "20 years behind the times" is commonly attributed to Mark Twain. No one knows for sure whether the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" author really said it, but it's a funny line nonetheless − until you realize how often it rings true.
University News & Events · 8d

A Deep Read interview. Percival Everett and the making of James

Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and reimagines Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character Jim.
Soap Central on MSN.com · 12d

Who are the Finn in The Wheel of Time? Details from Season 3 finale explored

The Wheel of Time season 3 recently came to a fantastic conclusion. The finale episode was titled He Who Comes With The Dawn and featured a rare type of entity that Mat stumbled upon while on the quest to unearth the treasures hidden in Panarch's Palace.
Icon for www.nysun.comNew York Sun · 29d

With Val Kilmer’s Death, Doc Holliday Fans Mourn the Modern Old West Legend

In “I’m Your Huckleberry,” he wrote that he liked “the unintentional echo of Huckleberry Finn, which is my favorite novel.” Kilmer recognized that his line “playing the diseased Doc Holliday … has become iconic.” He also put to bed a myth ...
Times News Online · 13d

Inside Looking Out: A lesson from a goldfish

Mr. Smith, a high school philosophy teacher, told his students that his curriculum required that he conduct an experiment by removing a goldfish from its bowl that he brought to the classroom.
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Fire & Light youth telling "Mystery of Tom Sawyer" in Fort Wayne

The show, written by late local theater icon Harvey Cocks, is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in which Sawyer and friend Huckleberry Finn run away. Cocks ...