Originally posted by: Shelley Fisher Fishkin on September 14, 2017 In literally thousands of extraordinary performances of his groundbreaking show, “Mark Twain Tonight!,” Hal Holbrook has brought Mark Twain alive for millions of people in the U.S. and around the world...
Originally posted by: Shelley Fisher Fishkin on February 21, 20192018 was the first year since 1954 that Hal Holbrook (who retired in September of 2017) did not perform “Mark Twain Tonight!” I compiled this video to honor him on his 94th Birthday (February 17th) and...
Originally posted by: Kaine Ezell, on September 21, 2017 With the upcoming premier of Star Trek: Discovery (CBS) on September 24, we thought it might be fun to look back at Mark Twain’s first appearance in the Star Trek universe. Since the original Star Trek aired in...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 26, 2019 Although it’s been almost a century since Mark Twain’s death, his staying power as an American icon endures. There are many reasons for his iconic status: his stories (especially those that keep getting banned),...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on December 17, 2021During a presentation I gave at the recent CMTS symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of Roughing It, I made an offhand comment linking Mark Twain with The Big Lebowski. The link is a solid one. Joel Coen,...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 21, 2017“Fake news” isn’t really anything new. Robert Darnton points out in a recent essay in the New York Review of Books that “the concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 26, 2017As a follow-up to a post I wrote earlier this year on Mark Twain’s friendship with Frederick Douglass (who is from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where I live), I wanted to share the following excerpt from Chris...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 12, 2018About halfway through my recent two-week fellowship at Quarry Farm I felt a new affinity with something Mark Twain wrote while perched there “on top of the hill near heaven.” “I have the feeling of being a sort...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 28, 2017While Mark Twain’s close bond with Congregationalist minister Joseph Twichell is well known among Twainians, the friendship he shared with another man of the cloth, the Rev. Moncure Conway, often receives little more...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on January 25, 2019 “You can call it a barrier, you can call it a wall, you can call it a wangdoodle for all I care.” – Sen. John Kennedy (Louisiana)The above quote from the ongoing (some might say “never-ending”) discussion over...