Jon Clinch will read from Finn tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, in the Howard Thurman Room, Marsh Chapel, Boston University, at 5:30 pm. In his first book, Jon Clinch transforms Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by tackling where Huck came from. In this take on the classic, Huck has a black mother, and his father is a human-flesh-roasting, floor-licking nutter. About the flesh-roasting, we're not kidding. Here's a paragraph from an excerpt available......

Surely you're familiar with the question "Who are the top five people you'd invite to a dinner party?" And Jesus and Mark Twain invariably end up on the list. Well, Jon Stewart is rivaling those two for the top spot, as shown by his performance this past weekend at the Wang Center. Jon Stewart would make the best dinner-party companion because he knows how to mix high-, middle-, and low-brow. OK, there wasn't all that......