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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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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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30
Jul

Mark Twain’s Many Faces

There are many revelations in the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Newsweek found today that these only make Twain more intriguing: “The more you read, the more complicated he seems….He is still …

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29
Jul

Mark Twain, As He Intended

If Mark Twain were alive today, he would undoubtedly have something to say about YouTube, the war in Afghanistan, and the BP oil spill (see The Onion‘s recent review). In his forthcoming …

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08
Jul

Mark Twain on PBS NewsHour

On PBS NewsHour yesterday, correspondent Spencer Michels interviewed General Editor Robert Hirst and Editors Harriet Elinor Smith and Benjamin Griffin of the Mark Twain Project, along with UC Press author and Twain …

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08
Jul

Mark Twain: His Own Devices

Benjamin Griffin Mark Twain Project, Berkeley A spate of recent Web postings and articles have stated that in the Autobiography of Mark Twain (published by the Mark Twain Project and UC Press, …

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