The Hartford House Hosts A Lecture on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Virtual lecture takes place on Wednesday, September 28 at 7:00pm
Tag: Tom Sawyer
Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine
Lubna Alzaroo discusses how Mark Twain’s descriptions have become part of contested claims of Israel upon Palestine.
Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian)
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on The Mandalorian and Twainian SciFi
The Apocryphal Twain: “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
Mark Twain may have made writing look easy, but he didn’t think it actually was.
Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque
In 1992, Gore Vidal used Mark Twain’s characters to allegorize what he believed might be the last U.S. presidential election.
2018 Undergraduate Quarry Farm Fellows Interview Filmmakers Aaron & Adam Nee About Their Adaptation of Tom Sawyer
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the first time, in 2018, we welcomed undergraduates interested in American Literature and Mark Twain to apply for a modified Quarry Farm Fellowship, which included a short stay at Quarry Farm to support a research or writing project. Our first recipients were Mona Beydoun and Samantha DeRosia. Samantha graduated from Eastern Michigan University this past year, while Mona will begin her senior year at EMU in the Fall. […]
Tom Sawyer Had A Dream And It Shot Him
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was originally on the program for the 8th International Conferences on the State of Mark Twain Studies, which took place this past August at Elmira College. Unfortunately, Hamada Kassam, a Syrian national who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, was unable to present his paper in person, due to Executive Order 13769. While it is little compensation for his presence, we are proud […]
Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Huck! Speak Up. We Need You.
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 word and all it carries. My son and I live in the space where Huck and Tom were called into existence. He’s nine and quickly approaching age that the boys were in Mark Twain’s stories. So it only seems appropriate that I’d […]
“I Killed Thirty-Eight Persons”: Sam Clemens & The Sioux Wars, 1862-1876
EDITOR’S NOTE: Atsushi Sugimura’s provocative and nuanced reading of an under-appreciated tale was part of the Mark Twain & Native Americans Panel at The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies in August of 2017. In this presentation, I’d like to examine the ways Sam Clemens makes reference, both directly and indirectly, to the marginalized tragedies of Native Americans in “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime […]
Fall Trouble Begins Lectures Continue With Lecture Focusing on “Tom Sawyer Abroad”
The fall portion of the 2017-2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Barn at Quarry Farm, with a lecture that explores the “boy-inventor publishing explosion” of the late 1800s. The lecture, “Mark Twain and the Inventor Fiction Boom: Technology Meets American Conceit, 1876-1910” will be presented by Nathaniel Williams, from the University of California, Davis. In Tom […]