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You've Got to Try Mark Twain's Secret Writing Trick

I remember the first time I read Tom Sawyer and how free I felt as the pages turned. Then, in High School, when I cracked Huckleberry Finn and learned so much about life in the South.
Lookout Local Santa Cruz · 3d

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.
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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...