by admin | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 31st, 2017 Yesterday, Los Angeles Review of Books published a piece I’ve been working on intermittently since the Amazon-Whole Foods merger was announced in mid-June. Please check it out. One of the implicit theses of the...
by admin | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 19, 2017 The Greatest Showman, a film about one of Mark Twain’s contemporaries and kindred spirits, releases nationwide tomorrow. Twain and P. T. Barnum were, by various accounts, friends, acquaintances, mutual admirers,...
by admin | May 10, 2025 | Emancipation Week, Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Lubna Alzaroo on August 19th, 2021 On the front page of the August 4, 1880 issue of the New York Times, above the fold no less, there appears a report on Frederick Douglass’s Emancipation Day speech the previous afternoon. Events in the city of...
by admin | May 9, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 8, 2018 “His outlook upon the world and its affairs was as wide as the horizon, and his speech was of a dignity and eloquence proper to it. He dealt in no commonplaces, for he had not commonplace thoughts. He was a kindly...
by admin | May 9, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on January 17, 2017 On this date in 1856, Samuel Clemens, at barely twenty years of age, gave what was likely the first of the improvised comedic toasts for which he would, as Mark Twain, become widely renowned. The occasion was an...