We will meet September 28 at Julie's house to discuss James by Percival Everett.
Supplemental materials (and check back for more later):
- Article from Julie - "Jim's Secrets: What Mark Twain Knew But Huck Finn Didn't", Edward Griffin, Journal of Opinions, Ideas, and Essays, August 15, 2013.
- "On Jim, the Lives and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade: A Conversation with Shelley Fisher Fishkin," Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Lydia Burleson, Arcade, December 1, 2025
- NYTimes book review, December 3, 2024.
- The Guardian book review, April 8, 2024.
- The Booker Prize page about the book, including links to author interviews, questions and discussion topics, blurbs from critics.
- Los Angeles Review of Books review, June 17, 2024.
- Oxford English faculty, panel discussion,
- New York Times article about the irregularities in the selection of James for the Pulitzer, May 5, 2025.
- Supposedly Fun video post that tells the story of the irregularities involved in the selection of James for the Pulitzer, May 5, 2025.
- The Deep Read series from The Humanities Institute - four-week series about James
- Week 1: Conversations with Twain - James Speaks Back
- Week 2: Doubled Voices: Language, Minstrelsy, and the Performance of Race
- Week 3: History and Myth, Literacy and Resistance: Slavery in James
- Week 4: Becoming James - Naming, Violence and Unfinished Liberation
- "The Too-Tidy Frame: James by Percival Everett," Albert Kapikian, Potomac Review, November 1, 2025.
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