Newspapers Worse Than Dead, But Print Is A Rent Strike (A Tale of Today, Episode #15)
The second part of our meditation on journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.
Author: Center for Mark Twain Studies
The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis (A Tale of Today, Episode #14)
The first of a two-part meditation on investigative journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.
The Gilded Network (A Tale of Today, Episode #13)
What does the metaphor of “Gilded” mean as critical theory, political economy, and media ecology?
“A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor” Exhibit Opens in NYC
Exhibit runs from January 15 to April 5, 2025
CMTS Announces the 2025 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows
Join us in honoring the 2025 Quarry Farm Fellows!
A Journey of Curiosity (A Tale of Today, Episode #12)
The finale of Act II of “A Tale of Today.”
The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)
Apple Podcasts Spotify Following Jelani Favors’s description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howard University in the Freedman’s Bureau [10:00], discuss the labor history of literature instruction [28:00], and mark the college football playoffs by discussing the dehumanization of athletic workers with the authors of “The End of College Football” [44:30]. To receive transcripts and other […]
Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire (A Tale of Today, Episode #10)
Fighting for what information gets archived, preserved, digitized, and historicized.
Half Castle ‘Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
An episode inspired by “The Teaching Archive.”
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at 2025 ALA in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2025)
CFP deadline is January 15, 2025.