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Fiction: On Percival Everett’s Philosophical Reply to Huckleberry Finn in James, His New Novel — Everett explores how an emblem of American slavery can write himself into being

Fiction: On Percival Everett’s Philosophical Reply to Huckleberry Finn in James, His New Novel — Everett explores how an emblem of American slavery can write himself into being | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - March 31, 7:19 AM
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Essay: A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn — Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic. By Tyler Austin Harper

From archive.is - March 16, 4:05 AM
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Fiction: Huck Finn Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling by Percival Everett Just Might Be, Too — “James” takes Mark Twain’s classic tale and places the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center

Fiction: Huck Finn Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling by Percival Everett Just Might Be, Too — “James” takes Mark Twain’s classic tale and places the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - March 14, 4:34 AM
“James” takes Mark Twain’s classic tale and places the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.
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Essay: Percival Everett Is Messing With You — The author of many novels, including Erasure, and James, his latest, has spent his career running rings around his readers. By Gene Seymour

Essay: Percival Everett Is Messing With You — The author of many novels, including Erasure, and James, his latest, has spent his career running rings around his readers. By Gene Seymour | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - March 17, 6:29 AM
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Fiction: James by Percival Everett — What better moment for one of America's preeminent authors to reconceive The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the nation’s central novel?

Fiction: James by Percival Everett — What better moment for one of America's preeminent authors to reconceive The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the nation’s central novel? | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From wapo.st - March 15, 4:49 AM
In James, the author who inspired “American Fiction” tells a familiar story from a fresh perspective.
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Essay-Review: On 'So Much Blue' and the radical and perpetually unpredictable voice of Percival Everett - by Jesse McCarthy

Essay-Review: On 'So Much Blue' and the radical and perpetually unpredictable voice of Percival Everett - by Jesse McCarthy | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From nplusonemag.com - June 25, 2017 3:35 AM
Percival Everett, a writer whose thirty-year career has produced a dazzling and prolific array of experimental novels, short stories, and poetry that have won him something of a near-legendary reputation himself, an outsider roaming the American West where he has long made his home. With Everett the appearance of a new novel is always an unpredictable affair, and even longtime fans and followers know they have to be prepared to, well, get thrown for a loop.
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