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27
Sep

Banned Book Week and Mark Twain

We all know that Mark Twain was no stranger to having his books banned through his life. Back in July, Newsweek printed this excerpt (which will appear in the second volume of …

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14
Sep

And the winner is…

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 …

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08
Sep

thisismarktwain.com is now live!

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 …

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30
Aug

Purgatory and Redemption

Poet Raúl Zurita was a 24-year old student in Valparaiso, Chile on the day of Augusto Pinochet’s coup in 1973, and lived for  17 years under the military dictatorship. In Purgatory, he …

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04
Aug

Memory and Mark Twain

The BBC World Service recently interviewed Bob Hirst, editor at the Mark Twain Project, and John Freeman, editor of Granta Magazine, which published an excerpt of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in …

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02
Aug

2010 American Book Award Winners

On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of …

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