Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards.
‘I’m humbled by it all’: Viral guitarist to perform national anthem at Jags stadium — againPro football legend Emmitt Smith to visit Jacksonville, Gainesville to discuss anti-overdose campaignJacksonville 20-year-old killed in crash after driving into coned-off scene on First Coast Expressway: FHPFILE - Percival Everett appears at the 38th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France on Sept. 5, 2012.
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