by Matt Seybold | May 12, 2025 | The Twain Doctrine
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 28, 2022 In the above epigraph, Hal Holbrook alludes to the events which inspired Charles Neider’s Mark Twain & The Russians (1960). The “propaganda line” appeared first in “Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes,”...
by Matt Seybold | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 12, 2019 On August 27, 1870, a sketch appeared in the Leavenworth Daily Commercial with Mark Twain’s byline. So far as I can tell, this sketch, “The Texan Steer,” has never appeared in any collection of Twain’s work or...
by Matt Seybold | May 12, 2025 | CMTS Events, Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 11, 2019 EDITOR”S NOTE: The following was offered as an introduction to the performance of “Mark Twain’s Music Box” at the Park Church in Elmira on February 8th, 2019. 117 years ago this week, in February of 1902, Mark...
by Matt Seybold | May 1, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 6, 2020 It would be grossly inaccurate to call George Steiner, who passed away earlier this week, an Americanist. His reading was cosmopolitan, certainly, and though it included the literature of the nation where he spent...
by Matt Seybold | Jun 28, 2024 | Mark Twain Day by Day 150 Years Ago, Mark Twain in Elmira
I says. “But my little Henry whisper an’ say, “I gwyne to run away, an’ den I work an’ buy yo’ freedom” O, bless de chile from manuscript of “A True Story” by Mark Twain On this day, 150 years ago, the household of...