by admin | May 1, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 15, 2019 At the Center for Mark Twain Studies we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain’s first book. Sales of The Innocents Abroad began on August 10, 1869 and soon...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 16th, 2017 James Baldwin said surprisingly little about Mark Twain. I say “surprising” because Baldwin was a renowned analyst of U.S. literary history. Many of the contemporaneous writers with whom he associated, both...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Archive
Originally posted by: Lubna Alzaroo on August 20th, 2021 Harold K. Bush, known to his friends as Hal, passed away earlier this week after a prolonged and finally unsuccessful recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Hal was a professor at St. Louis University and an...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 12th, 2020 When Danny Jansen jogged towards home plate on Tuesday night, preparing to registering the first run by a Major League Baseball team headquartered in Buffalo since 1885, he was, unknowingly, treading where Mark...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 27, 2020 Readers of Amy Kaplan’s The Social Construction of American Realism (1988) may be surprised to find that the dissertation out of which it developed, “Realism Against Itself,” begins with a chapter on Mark Twain....