Showing posts with label BOOK Huckleberry Finn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOOK Huckleberry Finn. Show all posts
18 July 2012

The Influence of Middle-Grade Fiction on Wes Anderson

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Movie director Wes Anderson, born in 1969, grew up reading the children’s books that librarians praised in the 1970s. Not that there’s any...
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14 October 2011

What Made Maus YA?

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More remarks on our cultural assumption that comics must be appropriate for kids from Dwight Garner’s review of Art Spiegelman ’s  MetaMaus...
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20 March 2011

Dick Gray and Richard Grayson

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Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and an upcoming biography of Bill Finger , co-creator of Batman and...
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15 January 2011

Chabon Feeling Torn on Twain

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At The Atlantic , novelist Michael Chabon clocks in on the new, worst-epithets-free edition of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn . As he no...
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07 January 2011

A Modest Technological Solution for Offensive Language

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Several years ago, a fellow member of the CW email list wrote about her idea for a book inspired by (as I recall) a Little League teammate o...
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06 January 2011

Standing Up for the Public Domain

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As we consider the current kerfuffle over an edition of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn , Americans are united on several points: Opposing...
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05 January 2011

Cutting Through the Huck Finn Weeds

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The edition of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn that I wrote about on Monday hit the national news today, with boringly predictable result...
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03 January 2011

The Slave Jim and Indian Joe

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The John F. Blair company is about to publish an edition of Mark Twain ’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn that: refers to Huck’s companio...