A daguerreotype portrait of Samuel Clemens as a young man holding a printer's composing stick with the letters S-A-M, Nov. 29, 1850, Hannibal, Mo. (Mark Twain by GH Jones/Wikimedia Commons via ...

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Road movies, including 'Paper Moon,' 'It Happened One Night' and 'Two for the Road,' plus a Guy Maddin retrospective that ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

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As a young man Rogers became an expert rider and ... Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American.

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Fulton, Joe B. 2020. Mark Twain in Context. p. 295. Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began ...

Percival Everett is back on the Booker Prize shortlist with James. After the success of his 2022 Book Prize nominated The ...

Thirteen books have been boiled down to six. Where in previous years a winner would have been obvious by now, this year, we ...