by Matt Seybold | May 10, 2022 | Digital Editions, The Twain Doctrine
A few weeks ago the New York Times’s Moscow Bureau Chief, Anton Troianovski, reported on “the furor over suspected pro-Western sympathies” in St. Petersburg following the censoring of a poster displayed at the National Library of Russia. The incident was reduced to a...
by Matt Seybold | Oct 28, 2020 | The Study
In 1992 GQ placed the Democratic nominees on its November cover, over the headline “Huck and Tom: Gore Vidal Punches The Ticket.” In the cover story, Vidal, a distant cousin of the candidate for Vice President, rightly predicted that Bill Clinton and Al Gore would...
by Matt Seybold | Feb 13, 2020 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Embedded within this post, you will find letters written by two important Elmirans – Susan Crane and John W. Jones – reflecting upon the history of the Underground Railroad. Crane was the sister-in-law of Mark Twain. She commissioned the octagonal study where Twain...
by Matt Seybold | Oct 29, 2019 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 29, 2019 Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey, a documentary about the six-decade run of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, will be released on Tuesday, November 19th. As of today, the film is available for pre-order from...
by Matt Seybold | Oct 17, 2017 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 17, 2017 A recent issue of NCTE’s English Journal includes a Special Section on “Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The editors open the section by acknowledging it “may offend some readers” and predict “There will...