by admin | May 13, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 20, 2017 To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I can truly say that this has been the most melancholy day of my life. When I arose this morning & reflected that on this day it was to be given me to see...
by admin | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 12, 2019 On August 27, 1870, a sketch appeared in the Leavenworth Daily Commercial with Mark Twain’s byline. So far as I can tell, this sketch, “The Texan Steer,” has never appeared in any collection of Twain’s work or...
by admin | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 31st, 2017 Yesterday, Los Angeles Review of Books published a piece I’ve been working on intermittently since the Amazon-Whole Foods merger was announced in mid-June. Please check it out. One of the implicit theses of the...
by admin | May 12, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 19, 2017 The Greatest Showman, a film about one of Mark Twain’s contemporaries and kindred spirits, releases nationwide tomorrow. Twain and P. T. Barnum were, by various accounts, friends, acquaintances, mutual admirers,...
by admin | May 9, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 8, 2018 “His outlook upon the world and its affairs was as wide as the horizon, and his speech was of a dignity and eloquence proper to it. He dealt in no commonplaces, for he had not commonplace thoughts. He was a kindly...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on January 13, 2017 Annotated editions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been relatively rare, especially considering how frequently the novel is taught in courses at both the secondary and collegiate level. The ever-popular...