Joking Aside: Jon Stewart & The Mark Twain Prize
Jon Stewart will receive the 2022 Mark Twain Prize at The Kennedy Center this weekend.
Tag: Mark Twain
The John T. Lewis Story: A Repeat Epistolary Performance
Two scholars from the Mark Twain Project analyze Twain’s storytelling technique by comparing two letters recounting the same famous incident at Quarry Farm.
The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part Two – Linguistic Exploration
The third selection of teaching exemplars for Mark Twain’s poetry.
The Ministry For The Future (Worldwide Climate Teach-In Special Episode) with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Anna Kornbluh, & Min Hyoung Song
American Vandal episode on Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, Ministry For The Future, is part of the Worldwide Teach-In On Climate & Justice.
Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece in The Innocents Abroad
Sam Clemens broke quarantine in 1867 to sneak into Athens and produce a vision of the “birthplace of democracy” that would appeal to American readers of the time.
Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast about David Graeber’s posthumous book, The Dawn of Everything, as well as the Great Resignation, the Great Recession, the Great Risk Shift, and much more.
Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin
Wes Anderson’s new movie takes inspiration from a literary magazine with a grand legacy.
#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It
Mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s Roughing It by joining a discussion of the book with CMTS’s resident scholar.
Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on The Great Resignation and other labor movements.
The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part One
The first in a series of scaffolding exemplars for teachers.