by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 28, 2017 Mark Twain was an immensely popular author. Based on this apparent truth, it has been convenient to regard him as populist as well. Contemporaneous critics dismissed him as “merely a humorist,” a characterization...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 7, 2018 My name is Mac Morrison, I am an undergraduate student at Tulane University. I’ve loved Mark Twain’s books since I was a very small child, and I’d like to gain a deeper understanding of the man and his work. In...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | Mark Twain Day by Day 150 Years Ago
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on September 27, 2021 One of my personal favorite sketches from Mark Twain’s early career is “The Revised Catechism,” published 150 years ago today. Though it is but a short, jokey parody of the American gospel of greed, there is...
by admin | May 1, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 29th, 2017 1868 was a pretty important year for Sam Clemens. Over the course of it, he would turn the Quaker City cruise of the preceding year into a lucrative cross-country lecture tour and what would prove to be a...
by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Barbara Schmidt on July 8, 2019 Cover of October 1959 Issue of Mad Magazine News outlets reported last week that the current longest-running humor magazine in the U.S. – Mad magazine- will soon stop publishing new material. First issued in 1952,...