'James' review: Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's ... - NPR
WEBMar 19, 2024 — Percival Everett's retelling of Mark Twain's 1885 classic focuses on Huck's enslaved companion. James is a tale so inspired, you won't be able to imagine reading the original without it.
Writer Percival Everett: "In ownership of language there ... - CBS News
WEBMar 24, 2024 — Percival Everett. Consider the irony (one of Everett's favorite literary devices) that "Jim Crow" helped him write a book about race – a novel-within-a novel satirizing publishing industry...
Book Review: ‘James,’ by Percival Everett - The New York Times
WEBMar 11, 2024 — Percival Everett’s majestic new novel, “James,” goes several steps further. Everett flips the perspective on the events in “Huckleberry Finn.” He gives us the story as a coolly electric...
A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn - The Atlantic
WEBMarch 12, 2024. Percival Everett’s new novel imagines Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved sidekick, Jim. But to call James a retelling would be an...
Percival Everett: Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim …
WEBPercival Everett, whose novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, had the idea for his latest book, James, when he was playing tennis.
Percival Everett on his novel retelling ‘Huckleberry Finn ... - PBS
WEBApr 2, 2024 — A trip down the Mississippi River in 19th century America taken by a young white boy, Huck Finn, and an enslaved Black man named Jim running for his life. Huck told the story in Mark Twain's 1884...
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘James,’ by Percival Everett
WEBMay 31, 2024 — The broad outlines of Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn and an...
In 'James,' author Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's ... - NPR
WEBMar 15, 2024 — Prolific writer Percival Everett often skewers different corners of American society. His latest novel James is written from the point of view of the character Jim, from Mark Twain's...
‘James,’ ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the Triumph of Literary Fan …
WEBApr 22, 2024 — One of the most talked-about novels of the year so far is “ James,” by Percival Everett. Last year, everyone seemed to be buzzing about Barbara Kingsolver’s “ Demon Copperhead,” which won a...
Percival Everett Gives First Public Reading of James During …
WEB2 days ago — Percival Everett proved to be a highlight of the 2024 Living Writers series when he gave the first-ever public reading of his new novel, James, in Love Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 21 — an unofficial opening to Colgate University’s Homecoming weekend.. Everett is a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California and a prolific writer with a background in biochemistry ...