Jon Clinch
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 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.