No Humor In Heaven: Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor, & The Mark Twain Prize
In anticipation of Dave Chappelle receiving the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize, Dwayne Eutsey compares styles of narrative comedy about race.
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“Germ: A Growing Point. A Bud” (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Don James McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at The University of Tulsa.
Next ‘Trouble Begins’ Examines Twain’s Hartford Home
Lecture takes place on Wednesday, October 23, starting at 7:00pm at Quarry Farm
Contemplating Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (A Quarry Farm Fellow Testimonial)
Nathaniel Cadle (Florida International University) talks about his time and discoveries at Quarry Farm
Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Explores Huck Finn
Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00pm in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus.
Mark Twain’s Modernism
Was Mark Twain a modernist? T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein all weighed in on this question.
Summary of Recent Posts on MarkTwainStudies.org
This summer, Matt Seybold launched a new series, “Mark Twain’s Portfolio,” in which he explores Sam Clemens’s career as an entrepreneur and investor. The first installment in the series, discussing the United Fruit Company, was named “A Great Weekend Read” by Politico and “Best of The Week” by The Browser. A second installment covers the Anaconda and Amalgamated Copper Companies. Further episodes will follow in coming months. Mark Twain’s Portfolio: Existential Hedging & […]
Lecture on Twain’s Experiences in Washington D.C. Starts the Fall 2019 Trouble Begins Lecture Series
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00pm. All CMTS lectures are open to the public at no cost.
Recap of the Quarry Farm Symposium “Mark Twain and Nature”
The Symposium took place on Friday, October 4 to Sunday, October 6, 2019
Finding The Lost Diary of Mark Twain’s Granddaughter, Nina Gabrilowitsch
In 1992, Alan Rankin and his friends came into possession of a mysterious diary. None of them knew anything about its teenage author, but her story would captivate them for decades to come.