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Friday, January 21, 2011

The New Adventures of Huck Finn

In case you haven't heard yet, a hot topic in 2011 has been the rewriting of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The publisher, NewSouth Books, plan to replace the "n-word" with the word slave.

Along with others, librarians are weighing in on the subject.


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