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...
Originally posted by: Joe Lemak on April 29, 2021One of most important reference works on MarkTwainStudies.org is the digital edition of David Fears’s Mark Twain Day By Day. This exhaustive chronology of the life of Samuel Clemens was originally published in four...
Originally posted by: Joe Lemak on March 3, 2021One of most important reference works on MarkTwainStudies.org is the digital edition of David Fears’s Mark Twain Day By Day. This exhaustive chronology of the life of Samuel Clemens was originally published in four...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on September 27, 2021One of my personal favorite sketches from Mark Twain’s early career is “The Revised Catechism,” published 150 years ago today. Though it is but a short, jokey parody of the American gospel of greed, there is...
Originally posted by: Joe Lemak on February 8, 2021Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – February 7, 1871 – Washington D.C. Samuel Clemens had left Buffalo the previous and arrived in Washington D.C. on February 2 via New York City. The author was in the process of...
Originally posted by: Joe Lemak on January 19, 2021One of most important reference works on MarkTwainStudies.org is the digital edition of David Fears’s Mark Twain Day By Day - - fixing the database, currerntly. This exhaustive chronology of the life of Samuel Clemens...
150 years ago this day, Mary Ann Cord told the story of being separated from her son at a human auction and reunited with him during Sherman’s March.