Author: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
Links:
-WIKIPEDIA: Mark Twain - -OBIT: The Guest of Emperors and Boarding House Keepers: A long-lost obituary of Mark Twain. (Adele Amelia Gleason, July 10, 2025, Lapham's Quarterly) -STORY: The War Prayer by Mark Twain -ESSAY: The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain: Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours. (Lauren Michele Jackson, 5/01/25, The New Yorker) -ESSAY: Huckleberry Finn, Jim, and the “lie of silent assertion”? (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, The Book Haven) -PODCAST: Poured Over: Ron Chernow on Mark Twain (Isabelle McConville / May 15, 2025, B&N Reads: Poured Over) - - -ESSAY: Twain Dreams: The enigma of Samuel Clemens (John Jeremiah Sullivan, June 2025, Harper's) - -REVIEW: of The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years 1891-1910 by Gary Scharnhorst (Scott Bradfield, Spectator) -REVIEW: of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (John Mullan, The Guardian) -REVIEW: of Mark Twain (Karl Straub, Washington Independent Review of Books) -REVIEW: of Mark Twain (Mark Bauerlein, First Things) -REVIEW: of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review) -INTERVIEW: Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow discusses his new book, 'Mark Twain' (Michel Martin, 5/16/25, NPR: Morning Edition) -REVIEW: Twain Dreams: The enigma of Samuel Clemens (John Jeremiah Sullivan, June 2025, Harper's) -REVIEW: Clever the Twain Shall Meet: An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian’s literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own. (Sara Bhatia, May 15, 2025, Washington Monthly) -REVIEW: of Mark Twain (Patrick Parr, Washington Free Beacon) -REVIEW: The wild, comic, self-deflating, volcanic genius of Mark Twain (George F. Will, May. 14th, 2025, Washington Post) -REVIEW: The Adventures and Misadventures of Samuel Clemens: A noted Twain scholar weighs in on Ron Chernow’s mammoth life of America’s most famous writer (Wayne Fields, June 30, 2025, Common Reader) -REVIEW: Mark Twain’s finest invention was himself: Over more than a thousand pages, Ron Chernow identifies the emotional root system that fed the writer’s art (John Mac Ghlionn, July 15/25, The Spectator) - -REVIEW: of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Jesse Day, Open Letters) - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (11/30/1835
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