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Are you ready for more uncensored Mark Twain? The eagerly-anticipated Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2, will be published in October. Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain’s life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across [more...]  At this year’s Litquake Festival, a series of literary events in the Bay Area through October 13 (most of them free), you won’t be able to throw a stone without hitting a UC Press author. Below is a full schedule of events featuring our authors (names in bold). You can find out more at the [more...] The latest issue of our journal Boom: A Journal of California (visit Boom’s web site), published this week, features an exclusive interview with Oakland artist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Clowes launched his career with the comic series Lloyd Llewellyn, about the adventures of a private detective, then went on to create the comic series Eightball, [more...] It’s here! The Reader’s Edition of UC Press’ all-time bestselling title is available now. First, let’s review a few of the well-considered comments the cloth version of Volume 1 received: “This first installment of Twain’s autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before.”—New York Review of Books “Mark Twain is terrific [more...] This summer not one, but two books about Everett Ruess, the 20-year-old aspiring writer and wilderness explorer who disappeared without a trace in 1934, are being released. One is Philip Fradkin’s Everett Ruess (UC Press), which goes beyond the myth of a romantic desert wanderer to reveal the realities of Ruess’s short life and mysterious [more...] What’s it like to discover you’ve been sitting on Mark Twain’s last major literary work without realizing it? Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project, describes the feeling in this interview with the National Endowment for the Humanities, a major funder of the Project and the Autobiography. Hirst discusses the immense challenge of producing [more...] Establishing National Poetry Month in April, which T.S. Eliot famously deemed “the cruelest month,” might seem a little misguided. But on closer look, the Academy of American Poets may be on to something. For Eliot, April is the month that stirs up all the emotions that have lain dormant in winter, “mixing/ Memory and desire.” [more...] Image copyright Ward Sutton and the Barnes & Noble Review We just came across Ward Sutton‘s remarkable illustrated review of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in the Barnes & Noble Review’s monthly Drawn to Read column. Through witty graphic representation, Sutton recreates some of the highlights from Twain’s Autobiography, such as his views on patriotism, his [more...] March 2011 marks the publication of UC Press’s 40th Anniversary Edition of Richard E. Kim’s classic novel, Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. The book, which was praised in [more...] Senator Claire McCaskill and Robert Hirst at the Capitol Hill event. Photo courtesy of Curt Suplee and the NEH. The General Editor of the Mark Twain Project, Robert Hirst, was invited to Washington, D.C. in February to speak about the process of editing and publishing Mark Twain’s papers. He spoke at the headquarters of the [more...] |
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