Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Your Take: Revising ‘Huck Finn’
A new edition of “Huckleberry Finn” will be published without the “n-word.” Is this censorship? Or a necessary move to make the book more teachable in certain schools. It’s a complex issue and Takeaway listeners weighed in on both sides of the argument. Listener, Laura Himmelstein thinks that kids should be able to read the […]
Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’
This week NewSouth Books announced the February publication of a new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This edition replaces the novel’s 219 instances of the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” Kurt asks the editor, Alan Gribben, about the consequences of creating a sanitized version of Twain’s original.
Huck Finn Mailbag
On last week’s show Kurt talked to Alan Gribben, the Twain scholar who, in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave”. Their conversation generated a lot of response from listeners, and this week Kurt reads a few of the comments.
Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’
This week NewSouth Books announced the February publication of a new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This edition replaces the novel’s 219 instances of the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” Kurt asks the editor, Alan Gribben, about the consequences of creating a sanitized version of Twain’s original.
Huck Finn Mailbag
On last week’s show Kurt talked to Alan Gribben, the Twain scholar who, in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave”. Their conversation generated a lot of response from listeners, and this week Kurt reads a few of the comments.
Matt Damon & Sofia Coppola
Kurt finds out about a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that gets rid of the “n-word” once and for all. The actor Matt Damon and the director Sofia Coppola share their takes on Hollywood stardom. And Detroit’s decaying buildings have turned it into the capital of a new photographic genre called “ruin […]