The Mark Twain House & Museum’s literary event featuring Percival Everett changes location
Due to overwhelming demand the event will be held at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford
Percival Everett
Immanuel Congregational Church • 10 Woodland St, Hartford, CT 06105
June 5, 2024
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Percival Everett
The Mark Twain House & Museum (MTH&M) is thrilled to announce that their free upcoming Trouble Begins lecture series event featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Percival Everett on his latest novel James has been moved to a larger location due to unprecedented demand. After the initial announcement, the discussion featuring the acclaimed author with journalist and cultural critic Michael Harriot sold out in less than two days! To accommodate the overwhelming interest from the community, the event will take place on the same day – Wednesday, June 5 at 7:00 p.m. – but now at Immanuel Congregational Church located at 10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT.
James
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finnremain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
The Chicago Tribune calls James, “A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.”
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees(finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
“We are truly humbled by the tremendous response to this event,” said Michael L. Campbell, interim executive director at The Mark Twain House & Museum. “It’s a testament to Percival Everett’s outstanding work and the enthusiasm behind Mark Twain’s enduring legacy. We’re excited to provide this unique opportunity for engagement and critical discourse.”
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