Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on September 15th, 2017 Editor’s Note: This is the second of several posts from members of the Mark Twain Studies community responding to Hal Holbrook’s announcement earlier this week that he would be retiring Mark Twain...
Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on October 12th, 2018Will Vinton, Oscar-winning director and producer of short-stopped animated films passed away on October 4, 2018 at the age of 70. Here is his obituary in The New York Times. To The Mark Twain Studies...
Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on February 9th, 2021The Internet, once touted as the information superhighway, is positively littered with spurious quotes attributed to Mark Twain. To a lesser extent, the same is true for a writer who knew and admired Mark...
Originally posted by: Joe Csicsila on May 21, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: We were saddened to learn this past weekend of the passing of Lawrence I. Berkove, a former Quarry Farm Fellow, Trouble Begins lecturer, and frequent guest of Elmira College and Friend of CMTS. With...
Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...
Originally posted by: James Caron on June 17th, 2021 James E. Caron retired as Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʽi, Mānoa, where he taught American literature for thirty-six years. He has published articles on satire, the tall tale, antebellum comic...
Originally posted by: Mona Beydoun & Samantha DeRosia on August 9th, 2018 The interview took place on July 7, 2018, 8:30 p.m. EST Mona: Could you start by telling us about your introduction to Mark Twain’s work? How did you first meet Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and...
Originally posted by: Peter G. Beidler on April 9th, 2018 Virtually everyone has been wrong about Huck and Jim’s raft. To understand where it was built, how it was built, why it was built, what it looked like, what its original purpose was, and how it happened to be...
Originally posted by: Courtney Bates on October 5th, 2017Mark Twain liked to imagine moments of speaking from beyond the grave. Perhaps the most well-known example is in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Huck, Joe, and Tom—but mostly Tom—enjoy the melancholic, sweet,...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 12, 2021Just as it was for individuals and institutions around the world, 2020 was a challenging year at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. But there is a lot we’re excited about as well, including, most...