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Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rasheed As-Samad, his wife, Jessica, and their sons, Andre, Isaiah and Rasheed Jr. (left to right) speak about their feelings over ...

Forty-three years ago this month, libraries around the country observed the first Banned Books Week. Its co-founder, Judith Krug, was the director of the American Library Association’s Office for ...

LOS ANGELES — Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Published in March to widespread critical ...

GREENWICH — Huckleberry Finn is a legend in American fiction, but he took his famed trip down the Mississippi River alongside a runaway slave named Jim, who until recently did not have his own voice. ...

While news of book bans in Florida has spread across the country, even informal challenges to books in Palm Beach County remain rare. Between the start of the 2023-24 school year on Aug. 10 and Feb.

Everett centers 'James' on the enslaved character Jim from Mark Twain's 1884 picaresque novel. Percival Everett’s acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn won the ...

The Audi Reading Group of Cando, N.D., will host a reading and discussion group from March through May that will focus on great American novels by Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Harper Lee. The ...