The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain - August 24, 2026

 

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.