Mark Twain
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I ain’t a mule, Huck: A Review of James (2024) by Percival Everett
By Jay Innis Murray I knew the trickster Ulysses just as early as I knew the wily rabbit of Negro American lore, and I could easily imagine myself a pint-sized Ulysses but hardly a rabbit, no matter how human and resourceful or Negro. And a little later I could imagine myself as Huck Finn… Continue reading
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Mid-Year 2023 Reading List
I’ve finished 34 books half way through the year. Not a sprinter’s pace, but it is more titles than I finished in all of 2022. The list is below. There are some highlights. There are always highlights. I finished two books by the late Mark Fisher and also read probably 70% of his k-punk blog.… Continue reading
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On The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain. Hints of Tom’s Suspect Character
Mark Twain gives hints of Tom Sawyer’s suspect character. They can be read comically at first glance, but this will come around again in a sad way in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1. He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him. – Page 5… Continue reading
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