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Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, died a century ago today, but he is still publishing books. He wanted it that way—he specified that his full autobiography not be published for 100 years after his death, and other writings for another 400 years after that. “When a man is writing a book dealing with the privacies of [more...]  One hundred years after his death, Mark Twain is still funny. “His humor was lasting because it points out the incongruity of life, that ever widening gap between illusion and reality,” says Jerome Loving, author of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens, in this podcast. Loving, who has also written biographies of Walt Whitman [more...] |
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