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Nov
A Menu for the Ages
If you had to compose a meal using only one ingredient, what would you choose? If you want your menu to stand the test of time, corn’s not a bad idea. William …
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15
Nov
Books and Baseball: Scenes from the Infinite City Release Party
Contributors, friends, and fans gathered to celebrate the release of Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas at the McCroskey Mattress Co. earlier this month. Not even a World Series game …
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Nov
In the Shadow of Slavery Wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, has been named the winner of the Twelfth Annual Frederick Douglass Book …
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Nov
Autobiography of Mark Twain: New Podcast with Harriet Smith
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.” …
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Nov
100 Years Later, Mark Twain’s Having a Ball on the Best Sellers List
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 …
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Nov
A San Francisco Visionary
Utne Reader has named Rebecca Solnit one of its 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World, praising Solnit for telling a different story than the one told by mainstream media in the …
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Oct
The Truth About Halloween 1938
Halloween conjures up memories of one of the spookiest events in broadcast history: Orson Welles’ radio dramatization of the War of the Worlds, which aired on Halloween eve in 1938. “No single …
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Oct
Litquake’s Mark Twain Ball is November 4
On November 4, Litquake celebrates the release of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in style with the Mark Twain Ball. Co-presented with the Bancroft Library and the California Historical Society, the Ball …
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Oct
Rex in the City
If you’re in New York, spend an evening with the authors of Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History on October 21st at 7pm. …
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Oct
“Cruel and Unusual” in California
A federal judge’s recent lifting of a four-and-a-half year moratorium on California state executions has brought the issue of cruel and unusual punishment back into the spotlight. As Scott Christianson demonstrates in …
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