by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 14, 2011 | Asides
Good piece, but the hole in Chabon’s argument is the fact that he was able to “adjust” the text on his own to fit the needs of his audience. It wasn’t some arbitrary “arbiter of cultural goodness” who made the change for him. The...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 6, 2011 | Asides
Interesting NY Times debate from several individuals on the aforementioned upcoming edit to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Does One Word Change ‘Huckleberry Finn’? | via Room for Debate @ NYTimes.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 4, 2011 | Writing
Excellent piece by Mark Barrett (Sticking a Shiv in Mark Twain) about the upcoming release of an expurgated version of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, in which Twain’s use of the N-word is erased from the text. Says Barrett: Anyone over the age of twenty knows...
