We'll meet August 24 at Katherine's to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
Supplemental materials:
- Blog post by Grace Tiffany, Shakespeare scholar, about Shakespeare in Huck Finn, Nov. 1, 2021
- "The Essential Discomfort of Reading Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn," Derek Bunting, Literary Focus, July 29, 2024 - has a bunch of links to commentary about the use of the N-word, and how schools have/have not dealt with it
- "Taking the History Out of Huckleberry Finn," Jamelle Bouie, The Atlantic, Jan. 4, 2011.
- "A Nation of Cowards," Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
- "Mapping Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi River Journey," Andrew Degraff, LitHub, Nov. 11, 2015. Includes cool graphical/illustrated maps of Huck's journey.
- Google interactive map showing locations of actions through the book
- Listening to America YouTube episode, Clay Jenkinson, historian, speaking about the Mississippi River and the use of the river as metaphor.








