by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on December 17, 2021 During a presentation I gave at the recent CMTS symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of Roughing It, I made an offhand comment linking Mark Twain with The Big Lebowski. The link is a solid one. Joel Coen,...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 21, 2017 “Fake news” isn’t really anything new. Robert Darnton points out in a recent essay in the New York Review of Books that “the concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 26, 2017 As a follow-up to a post I wrote earlier this year on Mark Twain’s friendship with Frederick Douglass (who is from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where I live), I wanted to share the following excerpt from Chris...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 12, 2018 About halfway through my recent two-week fellowship at Quarry Farm I felt a new affinity with something Mark Twain wrote while perched there “on top of the hill near heaven.” “I have the feeling of being a sort...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 28, 2017 While Mark Twain’s close bond with Congregationalist minister Joseph Twichell is well known among Twainians, the friendship he shared with another man of the cloth, the Rev. Moncure Conway, often receives little...