In 1992 GQ placed the Democratic nominees on its November cover, over the headline “Huck and Tom: Gore Vidal Punches The Ticket.” In the cover story, Vidal, a distant cousin of the candidate for Vice President, rightly predicted that Bill Clinton and Al Gore would...
Originally posted by: Emily VanDette on November 5, 2019Twain’s fascination and sympathy for animals is abundantly clear in the countless depictions of animals in his writing. One of my favorite manifestations of Twain’s love of animals, however, isn’t a literary...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 29, 2019 Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey, a documentary about the six-decade run of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, will be released on Tuesday, November 19th. As of today, the film is available for pre-order from...
Originally posted by: Nathaniel Williams on September 27, 2018What do we learn when we read Mark Twain alongside long-forgotten novels about giant robots and electric tanks? That was my initial question when I started the project that became my book, Gears and God:...
Originally posted by: Laura Skandera Trombley on December 11, 2017While I appreciate a sensational headline as much as anyone, and there are new bombshells arriving with disturbing daily frequency, when a friend sent me one that recently appeared in The Paris Review,...
Originally posted by: Atsushi Sugimura on December 5, 2017EDITOR’S NOTE: Atsushi Sugimura’s provocative and nuanced reading of an under-appreciated tale was part of the Mark Twain & Native Americans Panel at The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark...
Originally posted by: Various Scholars on September 19, 2017For more than sixty years Hal Holbrook did a thing that Samuel Clemens did for only about thirty: he took Mark Twain to the stage. I suppose the transformation was more profound on Holbrook’s part than on...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 20, 2017To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I can truly say that this has been the most melancholy day of my life. When I arose this morning & reflected that on this day it was to be given me to see...
Originally posted by: Gretchen Sharlow on December 21, 2016Gretchen Sharlow is the Director Emerita of the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. Two downloadable lectures from Victor Doyno are available at the end of Director Sharlow’s rememberance. By...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 7, 2016“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – The Apocryphal TwainIn November 1973, Gore Vidal’s Burr debuted at #4 on the NYT Best Seller List. The novel spent the next 39 weeks in the top ten, including...