The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concluded the 2025 Park Church Lecture Series last night with a talk entitled, "Beyond Mental Telegraphy: Twain's Late Psychological Fiction" by Thomas W. Howard, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). The Trouble Begins and The...
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Howard Concludes the 2025 Park Church Summer Lectures
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 16 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
Theis’s Park Church Lecture Now Available
The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued the 2025 Park Church Lecture Series last night with a talk entitled, “Detecting Twain in Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins” presented by Aliza Theis, University of California, Berkeley. Mark your...
Theis Continues the 2025 Park Church Lecture Series
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 9 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
Gilbert Kicks Off The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 25 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
The Park Church Culture Into Which Mark Twain Married: An Introduction to “Mark Twain’s Music Box”
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 11, 2019EDITOR”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...
StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 28, 202 Sometimes we labor under the delusion that by actively cultivating tastes for specific flavors of mortal risk, social isolation, physical pain, and other varietals of suffering we might transcend the oppressive...
Neoliberal Rationality in The Old Gilded Age: Introductory Address at 2018 Quarry Farm Symposium
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 5, 2018At the outset of his chapter on “The Economics of American Literary Realism” in The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (published today, by the way), Henry Wonham asks whether “the diverse set of...
2020: The Year In Review
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...
The Untold Story of the Making of The Fantastical, Historically Inaccurate, Adventurous, and Mysterious “Mark Twain’s Niagara, Book 1” Graphic Novel
Originally posted by: Andy Stanleigh on September 18, 2019“Yet slowly, surely, steadily, in the course of my fifteen visits, the proportions adjusted themselves to the facts, and I came at last to realize that a waterfall a hundred and sixty-five feet high and a...