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All Fours by Miranda July audiobook review – the frank, sexy novel everyone’s been talking about

The Guardian 24 Apr 2025
There she is electrified by a younger car hire worker who has “a Huckleberry Finn/Gilbert Blythe look that I used to flip out over as a teenager.” After the two lock eyes while he squeegees her ...
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The week’s bestselling books, April 27

The Los Angeles Times 23 Apr 2025
1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday. $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books. $28) An accomplished actor grapples with the varied roles she plays in her personal life.
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Show-stopping vocals carry ‘Big River’ through plodding second half

Bangor Daily News 17 Apr 2025
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” opened over the weekend in a mostly successful production of the musical featuring country, bluegrass and gospel music ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will be performed at 7 p.m.
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Hyde Park project latest test to see if Mark Twain was right about Cincinnati | Opinion

Cincinnati.com 17 Apr 2025
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 ... We hesitate. We debate. And while we stall, other cities surge ahead.
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The week’s bestselling books, April 20

The Los Angeles Times 16 Apr 2025
1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday. $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books. $28) An accomplished actor grapples with the varied roles she plays in her personal life.
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Observer’s Guide to 2025’s Best Memoirs and Biographies, From ABBA to Ono

New York Observer 15 Apr 2025
Courtesy the publishers ... Sign Up ... Yoko ... Yoko ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has produced an exhaustively detailed and discerning account of the Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer author that shines a light on less appreciated parts of Twain’s biography.
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Reimagining stories at the Six and Twenty Club meeting

Wilmington News Journal 14 Apr 2025
Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was the inspiration for Everett’s work ... if anyone had ever told the story of Huck Finn from Jim’s viewpoint and could not find that anyone had.
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Why, really, is Elphaba wicked? Gregory Maguire’s prequel is a bestseller

Daily Press 14 Apr 2025
A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders. ___ FICTION. 1 ... 1 ... 10. 2 ... (Doubleday) A reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain’s classic, revealing new facets of the character of Jim.
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The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years

The Los Angeles Times 14 Apr 2025
So, after building our Ultimate L.A ...M.A ...I.S ... Jim, an enslaved Black man accompanying Huck in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” becomes James, reader of John Locke and Voltaire, in Percival Everett’s majestic inversion of the classic.
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NBA GM is savoring life one year after kidney transplant from living donor

Usatoday 11 Apr 2025
Denver Nuggets fire Coach and GM just before the NBA playoffs ... life ... Oct ... He felt a little like the characters in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" – when Sawyer and friend Huckleberry Finn attended their own funerals.
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10 things to do: Record Store Day, Canton fashion show, Macy Gray concert, Dixon's Violin

The Independent (inde) 10 Apr 2025
Canton Repository entertainment writer Ed Balint runs down 10 things to do this weekend and beyond in Canton and Northeast Ohio. 1. Vinyl lovers holiday ... Market St ... The show features excerpts from "Huckleberry Finn," "Eve's Diary" and "Curing a Cold.".
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Ellsworth theater’s musical back on track after adding Black actors to cast

Bangor Daily News 09 Apr 2025
The musical, based on Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” will open Friday, April 11 and close with a 3 p.m.
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The week’s bestselling books, April 13

The Los Angeles Times 09 Apr 2025
1. Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (Forever. $28) After one perfect date, a couple navigates family crises and long distances. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday. $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 3 ... 4.
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Small Maine town's theater is set to cancel hotly-anticipated musical because cast is too white ...

The Daily Mail 07 Apr 2025
The Grand Theater in Ellsworth, Maine has made a last-minute appeal for minority actors to save its production of Big River, an adaption of Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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In bestsellers, TB’s tenacity in the world and a vampire amid the Blackfeet

Daily Press 07 Apr 2025
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above ... 1 ... (Doubleday) A reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain’s classic, revealing new facets of Jim ... .
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