Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on January 17, 2017 On this date in 1856, Samuel Clemens, at barely twenty years of age, gave what was likely the first of the improvised comedic toasts for which he would, as Mark Twain, become widely renowned. The occasion was an...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 25, 2022The chaperoned first date of Samuel Clemens, the man better known as Mark Twain, and Elmira native, Olivia Langdon, took place on New Years Eve, 1867 in New York City. They went to see Charles Dickens read...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 7, 2020There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 28, 2016 There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on May 16, 2018 Mark Twain is frequently treated as a precursor to the New Journalists who rose to prominence in midcentury America, writers like Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, who died yesterday. Like...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 6, 2016 Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film The Big Short opens with the above epigraph.Seems appropriate enough, for a cautionary tale about financial bubbles inflated by mass delusion. The film, like the Michael Lewis book...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 6, 2016There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on June 28, 2019There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 30, 2019On Saturday night, while Ron Chernow was addressing the White House correspondents and their esteemed guests, I was in Brooklyn speaking to and with an inspiring group of conceptual artists on the final day of “Dirt...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 5, 2018There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...