Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on September 16, 2019In her recent salute to Mad Magazine, Barbara Schmidt alluded to the rare pamphlet, Drinking With Twain, self-published by Frank E. Kelsey. The Center for Mark Twain Studies is in possession of one of the five...
Originally posted by: Nathaniel Ball on September 20th, 2016
Originally published as an English-language pamphlet in May 1960, Mark Twain & The Russians is a collection of three articles published in the Soviet periodical, Literaturnaya Gazeta, translated and bookended with additional commentary by the author of one of...
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...
This following speech was delivered at “Hoffman’s Grove” (which is now called Grove Park) in Elmira on August 3rd, 1880, as part of a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the adoption of the British Slavery Abolition Act in the West Indies, and the...