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If you’re anything like me, you spend too many lunches at your desk catching up with the world while you finish that turkey wrap you picked up from People’s Cafe. But even if you’re having something other than turkey wrap for lunch, just because you’re sitting at your desk doesn’t mean that you’re [more...]  Some of you, especially those with a proclivity to send email and twitter messages asking about this, seem to have noticed a slight discrepancy between the publication date of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, the availability date, and when you can expect to actually go to a local store and find a copy. 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 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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