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Robert Hirst, director of the Mark Twain Project, was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air on December 1. In the interview, Hirst shares some little-known pieces from the Autobiography, including a gem of a story in which Mark Twain meets and converses with Helen Keller. He also articulates why this version of the Autobiography is different [more...]  If one were going to look in the dictionary of “Gilding the Lily,” you would likely see a picture of me talking up all the reviews, raves, and features about the Autobiography of Mark Twain. Note: Don’t actually do this. You’ll likely be disappointed as I don’t think we’re actually in the dictionary…I mean, there was [more...] In this new UC Press Podcast, Harriet Smith, editor of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, explains the reasoning behind Mark Twain’s famous 100-year embargo, a decision Smith calls “a great marketing strategy.” Clemens wouldn’t risk embarrassing others or ostracizing himself by publishing his autobiography while he was still around to see it. Even so, he [more...] Mark Twain is on fire! His unexpurgated Autobiography debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list—”not bad for a book written 100 years ago and wrapped up in canny posthumous mythmaking ever since,” writes the Times in this week’s “Inside the List” column. You can read excerpts from the Autobiography [more...] Self-reinventor. Master of self-aggrandizement. The first blogger. An enigma shrouded in a white suit. These are just a few of the labels that have been applied to Mark Twain since UC Press announced it would publish his uncensored Autobiography 100 years after his death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of our [more...] Here is a lively series of interviews introducing viewers to the work that went on behind the scenes in the production of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, to be published in Nov, 2010 by UC Press. This and many more videos can be found at thisismarktwain.com. As part of our effort to bring you Mark Twain in new and different ways, I’m happy to announce that you can show the world your Twainiac (Mark Twain + Maniac = Twainiac) tendencies with our exclusive Twain image in a wide variety of colors and styles. Just go to the UC Press store on [more...] Thanks to everyone who entered our first Autobiography of Mark Twain galley giveaway. The winner, chosen randomly from all the entries we received, is Kenneth Chaney and his favorite Twain title is Roughing It. Congratulations, Kenneth. For those of you who entered and didn’t win, don’t worry, there will be several chances to win a galley [more...] As some of you may have heard, we’ll be releasing The Autobiography of Mark Twain later this year. Heck, we’ve even put up a lovely website, thisismarktwain.com, to highlight some of the new material to be found only in the Autobiography. But we’re well aware that readers of Mark Twain have had years and years, [more...] www.thisismarktwain.com brings to life the Autobiography of Mark Twain in video slideshows, images, interviews with the editors and other Mark Twain scholars, and audio clips of excerpts from the book. The site takes readers behind the scenes to view materials only available at the Mark Twain Papers of The Bancroft Library. The reader can interact [more...] |
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