On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

American author Percival Everett's novel James is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, Creation Lake by Rachel ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind. “I remember making friends at age 13 ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884. These successes brought him fame and fortune. Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his ...

Everett's acclaimed reworking of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective of Jim, Huck Finn's enslaved companion, has already received the National Book Award and the ...

A handful of streaming services offer high-res audio. These are the best places to find better-than-CD-quality sound. My career has taken me through an eclectic assortment of fields, and connected ...

Besides “James,” Everett's retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," fiction nominees include ... Carr's “Candy Darling"; Jean Strouse's book on painter John Singer Sargent ...

This January, we asked our WGN Radio readers to reflect upon favorite books from 2024 and share what they’re reading now. Here’s what they had to say… My favorite from last year was The Wide Wide Sea: ...

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The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads ... Percival Everett’s James retells Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the ...

The audio version’s accompanying PDF includes far fewer photographs of Parton’s extraordinary outfits than the printed book, though that version bears as much resemblance to the audio as ...