Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 16, 2021Apple | Spotify In 1956, Emily Hale arranged for a trove of 1,131 letters to be sealed and warehoused at the Princeton University Library. She revealed very little about their contents, other than...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 23, 2021Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes One of the biggest brands in contemporary SciFi, Star Wars, produced its hit TV series for Disney+, The Mandalorian, under the...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 11, 2021 Apple | SpotifyDuring his tenure at editor of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Mark Twain profited by promoting the stock offerings of mining operations that advertised with the paper,...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 15, 2021In the week since the Storming of the Capitol and the temporary disruption of the electoral process by President Trump’s supporters, a crucial, but habitually ignored period in U.S. history has...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 12, 2021Just as it was for individuals and institutions around the world, 2020 was a challenging year at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. But there is a lot we’re excited about as well, including, most...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 18, 2020We conclude the first season ofThe American Vandalwith a new format, the Deep Cuts Book Club, which we expect to become a standard feature of the podcast in future seasons. These episodes will...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 14, 2020Apple | Spotify James McBride’s third novel, Good Lord Bird, is a retelling of Bleeding Kansas and the Harpers Ferry raid from the perspective of a young black man who gets swept up in the...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 1, 2020Editor’s Update: A few months after this episode ran, Matt Seybold published an essay in Los Angeles Review of Books which built upon the conversations contained within. Check out “The Political...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on November 23, 2020Apple | Spotify | CastBox | Podcast Addict | Stitcher | TuneIn | ListenNotes During the mid-1860s, Mark Twain waged a prolonged and inflammatory media war against the San Francisco Police. By some...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on November 11, 2020Mark Twain was fond of ghost stories and the Gothic. His fiction is sprinkled with haunted houses, creepy cemeteries, curses, blood-oaths, and, above all, corpses. As with many other authors in...