Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain
Amy Kaplan’s scholarship presents important challenges for Twain Studies.
Tag: Mark Twain
The Blue Jays Play Their Home Opener On The Site of Mark Twain’s Buffalo Boarding House
The first Major League Baseball game in Buffalo since 1885 has multiple connections to Mark Twain.
The Apocryphal Twain: “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
A new installment of Matt Seybold’s “Apocryphal Twain” series focuses on an aphorism often attribued to Mark Twain and George Carlin, but with actual orgins in midcentury cinema.
Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”? (from KeepingClassics.com)
A Kansas teacher explains how this early Mark Twain story appeals to the interests of contemporary students.
Need Some Summer Reading? Here Are The Most Popular Essays From Our First Four Years.
25 of our most popular posts since 2016.
Black Lives Matter at Quarry Farm
In “A True Story,” written at Quarry Farm in 1874, Mark Twain frankly acknowledges his ignorance of black experience. Larry Howe discusses how Twain uses the story to check his own privilege and amplify the voice of a black woman, Mary Ann Cord.
Mark Twain Circle of America Issues Statement of Solidarity With Protesters Against Police Brutality
“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” – Mark Twain, Following the Equator The Mark Twain Circle affirms the courageous citizens who are risking their health and safety to protest police brutality. We stand in solidarity with the Black and Brown communities whose suffering under systemic racism exposes the vicious underbelly of American culture. We call on government agencies to uphold the social contract – […]
Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)
Our resident scholar discusses the resonance of Mark Twain’s “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)
Our resident scholar has spent his first week in self-quarantine thinking about Mark Twain, coronavirus, and the Civil War.
Dispatches From Quarry Farm: Distance Lends Enchantment To The View
Caretaker Steve Webb and his son are the only year-round residents of Quarry Farm. Steve provides us with occasional, not always altogether reliable, updates from the premises. The grey-green Daffodil shoots still break the surface of the cold brown earth. The birds still sing. A dog still begs and plays and snores, waiting for the next chance. A caretaker is, by nature, a social distancer “Distance lends enchantment to the […]