The protesters dispersed after about a dozen Eugene and UO police showed up, the Emerald reports ...It’s a brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from “Jim’s” point of view that is both tragic and satirical ... • Also this week in WTF ... ....
DePriest died April 30, at his home in Cramerton... She said before she met DePriest, she was like Huckleberry Finn, who said, "I don't take no stock in dead people," but DePriest made her care about the stories of the people who rested in Sunset.
1. GreatBigBeautiful Life by EmilyHenry (Berkley. $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress. 2 ... $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... $29) An L.A ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... …1.
• Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha bags award for commentary ...NEW YORK ... In the arts and letters, Percival Everett won in the fiction category for James, a reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives a voice to the Black character Jim ... .
Everett’s subversive reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” had already landed critical acclaim and a string of literary honors, including the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize ... “James” got the necessary majority vote ... .
“James” is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man determined to reunite with his family.
“I miss Gaza... I miss making tea for my sisters ... In the arts category, writer Percival Everett won the Pulitzer for Fiction for his novel James, a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character Jim ... ....
In fiction, Percival Everett’s “James” was awarded for its “accomplished reconsideration of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy,” the committee wrote ... .