The Gilded Network (A Tale of Today, Episode #13)
What does the metaphor of “Gilded” mean as critical theory, political economy, and media ecology?
Tag: Mark Twain
The Apocryphal Twain: “Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you’re going to do with it before you collect it.”
A management theorist’s ideas reformulated and misattributed to Mark Twain.
Philanthrocapitalism U (A Tale of Today, Episode #7)
A discussion of financing HBCUs revolving around the example of Morehouse College.
“The Greatest Pie Ever Baked By Arbitragers”: Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, The Lies of Empire & Other Sad Truths
On Gore Vidal’s Italian adaptation of Mark Twain’s “To The Person Sitting in Darkness.”
The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum (A Tale of Today, Episode #6)
The second act of “A Tale of Today” opens with a survey of the history of HBCUs.
“It is Mighty Hard to Fully Believe What You Don’t Know”: Mark Twain & Ghosts
Dwayne Eutsey recounts one of many spooky experiences at Quarry Farm.
All 2024 CMTS Lectures Are Now Available
The lectures from the 2024 Spring & Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series, the 2024 Park Church Summer Lecture Series, and the 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium are now available. CMTS had the opportunity to record 27 talks from established and emerging scholars working in the field of Mark Twain Studies and other related fields. We hope these support and push forward the study of Mark Twain and his texts in all […]
First As Farce: Structures of Feeling In The Gilded Age (A Tale of Today, Bonus Episode)
Podcast edition of the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium Keynote by Nathan Wolff, including bibliography.
The Historical Novel (A Tale of Today, Episode #5)
Organized around a comparison of György Lukács’s “The Historical Novel” (1937) and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner’s “The Gilded Age” (1873).
Always Historicize? (A Tale of Today, Episode #4)
A series of conversations about historicisms, hinge points, and historical novels.