| 单词 | Mark Twain |
| 例句 | Bailey had finished his chores and was already behind the stove with Mark Twain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw himself walking the streets of Harlem, discussing the merits of Mark Twain with his American friends, gazing at Mount Rushmore. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He went on and on about Mark Twain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I am named after the Mark Twain character, by the way. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mark Twain defined women as lovely creatures with a backache. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her throat felt thick with a wish to say, simply, “You” but she said, “Mark Twain.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The hologram librarian appeared and advised Akimi that Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was the book located right underneath the holographic image of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “We think we’re very lucky, to be able to give her a birthday. It’s the same as Winston Churchill’s. And Mark Twain’s.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But apparently he got something out of Tom Sawyer, even if he didn't read it or write the paper on Mark Twain. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She didn’t think it was necessary to mention that her teacher had just read Tom Sawyer to the class—and just possibly Set had had a little help from Mark Twain. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She even imagined she carried some essence of Mark Twain inside herself, which was why he appealed to her so much. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Does she think that I’m one of these perverse Mark Twain characters?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a new book: Tom Sawyer, by a fellow named Mark Twain. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Quang-ha is clever enough to delete the first paragraph of the Mark Twain paper and go through the computer file and misspell a dozen words before he prints it out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Liyana was writing about Mark Twain, since he too had lived in Missouri, her old state, and no one else in her class had chosen an American for their author’s report. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Okay, so the journal prompt was “Pick any character in Mark Twain’s works and explain how he or she is changed by his or her experiences.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had brought romantic images of Mark Twain’s Mississippi River with me when I went to the Hudson, but it wasn’t to be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Still, he emerged as if he were a modern-day Mark Twain or a J. D. Salinger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After losing his entire fortune to bad investments in the early 1880s, he wrote his memoirs with the help of editor Mark Twain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I saw a story about Mark Twain — it was not his biography, it was a fictional piece with actors. David Lee Roth Is Letting His Art (Mostly) Do the Talking 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z It was from this vantage, in December 1866, that Samuel Langhorne Clemens — now known by his pen name, Mark Twain — first laid eyes on San Juan del Sur. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z So come, and let us praise the Nobel committee for its honorific omission, this majestic absence that joins Philip Roth to Mark Twain, James Joyce and Tolstoy: He has something in common with each. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When he returns to full strength, he’ll dive back into the project he’s been working on for two decades: a movie about Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy and her detractor Mark Twain. Val Kilmer: 'Lord, I'm never going to read this tripe!' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Bird stumbled on the manuscript in 2011, when he was searching the Twain archives for food references, for a Mark Twain cookbook. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z As Mark Twain understood, the argument about Shakespeare was "curiously theological", and the most intellectually thrilling episodes in Shapiro's book concern efforts to comprehend a teasingly absent god. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z But I think the job of the satirist is the same as it was from Mark Twain to Will Rogers to today. Not all comedians are tickled by Trump: He’s “in the news and that’s our job, but personally, to me? It’s nothing but scary” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z His quips and yarn-filled performances in “Mark Twain at Home” took him to lyceums, opera halls and auditoriums around the world. A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The Meacham character is Sanders Berman, the managing editor, who writes warm and fuzzy best-selling history books and “looks like he got his wardrobe from raiding Mark Twain’s closet.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z To hear Will Ferrell tell it, accepting the 14th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was a matter or relenting. ArtsBeat Blog: Oops, There Goes the Twain Award 2011-10-24T14:41:01Z It's never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists. Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir 2010-10-19T16:50:00Z The era’s name, from a book co-written by Mark Twain, makes the point that the glitter was on the surface. ‘The Gilded Age’: What Is Fact and What Is Fiction? 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain And a classic for – ostensibly –the boys. Best children's books: 12-years-old and over 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z Receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, the national showcase for arts, Letterman, 70, was praised for his imagination, comic daring and heart. David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Then again, no one would ever believe that a former greenskeeper could become Masters champion or that Murray, who is actually a former caddy, would receive the Mark Twain prize. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z After winning an Emmy Award for his work on Hal Halbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight!” in 1967, Mr. Smith made a stunning advance three years later when he worked with Dustin Hoffman on “Little Big Man.” Dick Smith, Oscar-winning master of movie makeup and special effects, dies at 92 But comparing pop music to Mark Twain is a little off-base. Dire Straits' homophobic faux-pas 2011-01-18T16:33:25Z Only with the publication of this, the third and final volume of his “Autobiography,” do we finally understand why Mark Twain wanted the book kept under wraps until 100 years after his death. Final volume shows why Twain wanted ‘Autobiography’ kept under wraps 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z On this very blog, Robert McCrum took issue with the New Yorker's approach, pointing to the likes of Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain and Mary Wesley, all late starters. Age is more than a number in the literary world 2010-07-01T09:00:00Z “Mark Twain’s definition of patriotism is this: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Mark Twain, who was known more for his sense of humor than his diplomatic skills, once said, "History does not repeat itself. But it rhymes." Henry Kissinger's 'World Order' is a timely warning 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Mark Twain's quote, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story," comes to mind watching "Vengeance," B.J. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The film, which echoes Mark Twain and his novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", centers on Ellis - played by up-and-coming actor Tye Sheridan, who was 14 at the time. Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud" 2012-05-26T12:35:13Z Many, including Mark Twain, marveled at riders’ courage and the spectacle of their switching horses every 10 miles or so for a fresh burst of speed. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Making Good Time With the Pony Express 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z But erasing evidence of racism from Mark Twain's work, while valorising Twain himself, is hypocritical: sanitising history makes it impossible for us to learn from our mistakes, or even to know that we've made them. Dire Straits' homophobic faux-pas 2011-01-18T16:33:25Z Christopher Myers, co-director and designer: Mark Twain was interested in the Congo, and he understood the relationship between the oppression of Africans there and the oppression of Africans at home. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Burns, whose survey of American history is interspersed with biographies of figures like Jackie Robinson, Mark Twain and Frank Lloyd Wright, might have taken on Hemingway at any time over the past few decades. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In these works by Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis and Carson McCullers, she finds the essence of the American experience, filtered through narratives not about exceptionalism or fabulous success, but alienation, solitude and landscape. A celebration of American reading from the author of ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ He followed that about a decade later with “Mark Twain’s Adventures Out West.” Jim Post, Known for a Memorably ‘Groovy’ Hit Song, Dies at 82 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The memoirs — published by Mark Twain — were stark in their honesty. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “I like it because I have so many different books on it already,” he said, including “The Trouble Begins at 8,” a fast-paced biography of Mark Twain written for children in the middle grades. E-Readers Catch Younger Eyes, and Find Room in the Backpack 2011-02-05T02:27:13Z Now Grand Central Publishing has acquired the 859-page novel, which is based on the friendship between Mark Twain and the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. An epic, posthumous novel from Oscar Hijuelos to be published 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Murray, 66, received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center, joining several other "Saturday Night Live" alumni to win the annual award. Bill Murray honored as he accepts Mark Twain prize for humor 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Although Mark Twain apparently didn’t coin the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction,” he offered perhaps the best explanation for why it is so. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z But he was widely admired as an independent thinker - in the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z This fascinating documentary about "the Jewish Mark Twain" sets the late 19th-century writer's works, triumphs and tribulations against a backdrop of historical tumult. Blue Man Group, Pilobolus are arts highlights 2011-09-28T23:43:06Z There’s some Mark Twain in them, to American eyes at any rate, also some early Philip Roth and a fair amount of J. D. Salinger. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z So the general reader who picks up a biography of Mark Twain is likely to be searching for insight into that one watershed novel. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z The book is set in an ailing Missouri river town on the banks of the Mississippi – the same giant waterway that inspired Mark Twain. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z Theodore Roosevelt lived there for a while, as did Mark Twain. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner came up with the phrase in 1873 to indicate that the economic boom of America’s Industrial Age was covering up severe poverty and widespread social problems. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z Livy had some choice advice for her husband, Mark Twain: Make it less funny. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The vista was prized by a succession of illustrious private residents, including Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Arturo Toscanini. Weekend Miser: A Guided Tour at Wave Hill 2012-11-15T20:50:48Z The “classic humorists” that I learned the most from were probably Mark Twain and Hans Christian Andersen. Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She won a leading role in A Connecticut Yankee, a Crosby musical based on the Mark Twain story, after Deanna Durbin dropped out to retire to France. Rhonda Fleming, 'Queen of Technicolor' in the 1940s and 50s, dies aged 97 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z But the historic views are the main attraction: Mark Twain’s Mississippi, Jessie James’s Missouri hide-outs; the New Mexican stomping grounds of the Apache and Navajo nations; and the distant white-capped Rockies. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z There are gifts for fans of Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and more. Some favorite gifts (that aren't books) for book lovers 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z And Burnett — such an American institution that she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013 — loves the challenge. Still talking, with Carol Burnett 2014-04-23T21:16:30Z Mark Twain and Friends: A River Journey The great American author returns with a few more tales to tell in Greg White’s family-friendly play; for ages 10 and up. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z As Mark Twain, sage of the Mississippi, once said, you must not dream your life but live your dream. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z The ballet features such prominent historical figures as Fairhaven founder Dirty Dan Harris; honorary consul of China, Goon Dip; and Mark Twain. 'Emerald Bay' ballet chronicles Chinese expulsion of 1885 2011-05-13T21:31:05Z “Mark Twain paced while he dictated,” she said. This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z They can say, `Well, Mark Twain liked to make a buck.' Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z “There’s something very sweet about the fact that people are interested in a 736-page scholarly tome about Mark Twain.” Mark Twain?s Autobiography Flying Off the Shelves 2010-11-19T22:37:00Z It's like some of these Mark Twain books like "Huckleberry Finn." Why comic Kevin Nealon learned to draw caricatures 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian "A good walk spoiled," was how Mark Twain once described the game of golf. Speed of Light – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-10T16:27:06Z “No one’s qualified to write for Mark Twain.” A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Although one can easily find connections between Vidal and previous American writers from Mark Twain and Henry James to H L Menken or Edmund Wilson, he remained sui generis – an American original. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z He was also awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last year, a prestigious honor in comedy. Obama Announced as First Guest on New Letterman Talk Show 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z I took a tour of the Mark Twain House on my weekend visit, and I found it unexpectedly opulent. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z She was born to a prominent Alabama family, and Alexander Graham Bell and Mark Twain were great admirers of hers. NYC exhibit tells story of activist Helen Keller 2010-04-13T10:37:00Z Cervantes and Bocaccio,, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Abe Lincoln, and Will Rogers are already smiling, because they know the game may prickle but it's wholesome fun.Steward, Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Think Cormac McCarthy meets Flannery O'Connor in a tale rich with dialect, based partly on a famed outlaw who crossed paths with Mark Twain. John Wray is hard to pin down 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z This fall, she will add the most prestigious award in comedy to her collection: the Kennedy Center’s 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Julia Louis-Dreyfus to receive the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Serving carnivores since 1447, including Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, and Mark Twain, too. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “One way to locate an unsafe investment is to find out whether Mark Twain has been permitted to get in on the ground floor,” The Washington Post once said about his business acumen. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z Grand Central Publisher announced Wednesday it has acquired Hijuelos’ “Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise,” based on the friendship between Mark Twain and the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Hijuelos novel posthumous release set for 2015 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z After his visit to the Indian Ocean outpost in 1896, Mark Twain wrote, “From one citizen you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.” In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z But something about this particular tale must have stuck with Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, because he decided to jot down some notes about it. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Tina Fey, who introduced the Mark Twain recipient, also did not shy away from the opportunity to talk about the Trump administration. Julia Louis-Dreyfus slams Kavanaugh and his “weird wall calendar” in Mark Twain acceptance sp... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain Prize will be awarded in a gala ceremony in the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall Oct. Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots It’s like Mark Twain said: ‘Don’t let school get in the way of your education.’ Jim Jarmusch: ‘I shy away from sex in my films. It makes me nervous’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The four-month sojourn was Samuel L. Clemens’s first visit to Manhattan — before piloting up and down the Mississippi, before christening himself Mark Twain, before the California gold fields and a certain jumping frog and immortality. New York?s Huckleberry Friend 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z He moved on to a Frank Sinatra and a Mark Twain. Judd Apatow, an Autograph Geek, Hunts for Memorabilia 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z "I admire your sand," acknowledges one of her adversaries, using a word popularized by Mark Twain to refer to courage and perseverance. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z The roughly two-hour performance proved at least one thing: Martin’s Mark Twain prize for American humor in 2005 was no fluke. Steve Martin brings banjo and laughs to the Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But there was an unmistakable political tint to much of Sunday night's ceremony to present Letterman with the Mark Twain award for American humor. David Letterman Receives Mark Twain Prize 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Humor is really important to me, especially at dinner, so I would invite Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z I’ve always subscribed to the Mark Twain adage that “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,” and I think the world needs travel now more than ever. The Deal Not Taken 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z He cites Mark Twain: “The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.” Perspective | Walking was freedom in lockdown. Three books show us why it’s so much more. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The book’s legion of avowed “admirers” includes Mark Twain, the Bloomsbury Group, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Review | What’s the worst novel ever? It might be this 19th-century train wreck. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Ferrell's impressions include former US President George W Bush US actor and impressionist Will Ferrell is to be awarded one of America's highest comedy honours, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour. Ferrell to receive comedy honour 2011-05-13T08:22:03Z Louis-Dreyfus is the 21st recipient of the Mark Twain Prize, which honors a lifetime contribution to American humor. Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts the Twain Prize: ‘Anybody would be lucky to be part of a night like this honoring someone like me’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Some of the biggest stars in American comedy took to a state in Washington, D.C. on Sunday to honor comedy legend Carol Burnett, who received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Carol Burnett Awarded Nation’s Top Humor Prize 2013-10-21T11:10:47Z “Mark Twain’s definition of patriotism is this: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The ballet features such prominent historical figures as Fairhaven founder Dirty Dan Harris, honorary consul of China Goon Dip and visiting writer Mark Twain. 'Emerald Bay' ballet chronicles Chinese expulsion of 1885 2011-05-13T00:51:04Z “Bill Murray deserves the Mark Twain prize and vice versa,” added Jim Jarmusch, who directed Murray in Coffee and Cigarettes and Broken Flowers. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In the order in which I encountered them: Mark Twain. Michael Lewis: By the Book 2014-04-10T14:00:01Z In order to concoct a pleasing combo — Mark Twain on the Tea Party, for example — you must already imagine what the author would write — an all-you-can-eat of gourmet ridicule — so there’s no element of surprise. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z One of Mark Twain’s favorite books, “Anne of Green Gables” is the story of a couple on Prince Edward Island who send for a boy orphan to help them out on the farm. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain Prize has in years past served as a sort of lifetime achievement award. On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell 2011-10-24T15:04:24Z The centerpiece of the monologue is Mr. Hodgman’s description of a visit to a Southern university where he was invited to give the Mark Twain lecture — despite his never having read any Twain. Theater Review: John Hodgman Steps Out of ‘The Daily Show’ 2014-01-15T00:01:14Z Now, he’s moved from the Founding Fathers on the $1 and $10 bills to the Civil War victor on the fifty, a man adored by Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Mark Twain’s “Roughing It,” for instance, made it easier for white readers to feel just fine about the extermination of American Indians he described as “the wretchedest type of mankind I have ever seen.” A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Mark Twain once wrote in his notebooks that it seemed of all God’s creatures, including humans, only one seemed unable to be trained on a leash. #Adventurecats: frisky felines around the world find a community on social media 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Murray is this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Emma Stone, Jane Curtin join Bill Murray tribute in DC 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Many others call it the perfect nightcap: Mark Twain, according to David Wondrich's Imbibe, took one for years before bedtime, calling it "the only soporific worth considering." How to make a perfect Hot Toddy, the whiskey cocktail to keep you warm this winter 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I couldn't give a rip about his politics, but he gets my vote as Texas's top humorist and America's next Mark Twain. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z Mark Twain once observed, “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough”—a philosophy Americans are increasingly taking to heart. Best Whiskey Bars in America 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Jay Leno, the doggedly populist comedy monologist and former host of the “Tonight” show, will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the prize’s organizers said Wednesday. Jay Leno to Receive Mark Twain Prize for Humor 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Mark Twain had a wide-ranging intellect, so he’s in, plus I owe him. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In 1885, when Susy was 13, she wrote a biography of her father, which was published as Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain. Mark Twain manuscript reveals author's pain at losing his daughter 2010-04-21T21:43:00Z As it happened, Mark Twain wrote “Huckleberry Finn” during his years living in Hartford, about 30 miles northeast of Waterbury. ArtsBeat: Connecticut School Official, Objecting to Racial Term, Wants to Block Wilson Play 2011-01-13T17:32:00Z “I was a child when Germany was in ruins. What caught my imagination, and how I became an enthusiastic reader, was from the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Hemingway,” he says. A museum honoring American writers opens in Chicago. But where are the books? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain House, the whimsical, Gothic house in Hartford, Conn., where the Twains lived for 17 years, is now a museum. Unpublished Twain family sketch set for NY auction 2010-04-21T07:04:00Z Recently retired US chat show host Jay Leno is to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American humour. Jay Leno awarded Mark Twain Prize 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z She praised his intelligence and focus and said receiving the Mark Twain Prize was perfect for him because “you both love using the n-word.” Dave Chappelle accepts the Twain Prize: ‘I love my art form. It saved my life.’ 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z In 1907 Mark Twain, America’s best-loved living author, visited England in a blaze of glory. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z Last year’s Mark Twain Prize went to Eddie Murphy, who was unparalleled in the 1980s but who, frankly, has not done anything funny since, besides Shrek. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z This is the Mark Twain, white suit, in his glory days era. Q&A: Discovering New York, Beyond Manhattan 2013-05-29T16:37:19Z We made the Mark Twain pilgrimage to Hannibal, Mo., where we saw and genuflected at “the house,” “the fence,” “the cave” and “the cabin.” 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z Recently retired “Tonight Show” host and longtime stand-up club comedian Jay Leno will receive the Kennedy Center’s 2014 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Jay Leno to get 2014 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at Kennedy Center One thing that gets Mark Twain going is his rage and resentment. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z Miller quotes Mark Twain, who said, “A ripe melon says ‘punk’ when thumped; a green one says ‘pink’ or ‘pank.'” 5 Smart Farmers’ Market Hacks 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the site is where he wrote his memoirs, published by Mark Twain, to provide for his family. A guide to New York City residences that eight U.S. presidents have called home 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z With Mark Twain, cosmic laughter and a revelatory overturning of moral expectation. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In a story April 21 about an upcoming Sotheby's auction of Mark Twain's letters, manuscripts and photographs, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of The Mark Twain House curator. Correction: Mark Twain Collection story 2010-04-23T15:33:00Z The Kennedy Center has canceled most previously announced performances for the rest of 2020, including its signature Kennedy Center Honors and Mark Twain Prize ceremonies, which have been rescheduled for next spring. Kennedy Center cancels most of schedule through 2020 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z AP: What drew you to Mark Twain and this role for the stage? Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year 2014-04-03T13:40:22Z Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy” and, every bit as appropriate today as in my youth, Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, the rooms were adapted into a Mississippi riverboat themed restaurant inspired by Mark Twain’s writings. Vanished Murals From the Empire State Building Rediscovered 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z His 56 years of one-man shows called "Mark Twain Tonight!" reached a milestone in Elmira, N.Y., on Wednesday, the centenary of the author's death. Holbrook performs in Mark Twain's beloved NY town 2010-04-22T01:08:00Z The Mark Twain Prize honors people who have an impact on society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist. Carol Burnett to win top US humor prize in DC 2013-05-21T15:06:13Z The crowd sang happy 175th birthday to Mark Twain before the lights went down at the Clemens Center, then laughed along with the nearest incarnation of the late author and humorist: Hal Holbrook. Holbrook performs Twain on author's 175th birthday 2010-12-01T13:16:00Z "Mark Twain is among the most famous writers and among the most famous people," said Michel. Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends 2010-12-16T19:00:29Z A Mississippi native, Mr. Hannah is heir to the bitter humor of Mark Twain, the Roman Catholic gothic of Flannery O’Connor and the South’s outsize tradition of tall tales. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z Given the spottiness of the record Mr. Kirschenbaum is hesitant to proclaim Mr. King the computer-age equivalent of Mark Twain, the first major American writer to complete a work using the new technology. A Literary History of Word Processing 2011-12-25T22:20:13Z She read fairy tales and the funny papers, Mark Twain and "Treasure Island." Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z The Minneapolis Times, in its scene setter, estimated that no living American had made more people laugh than Mark Twain, especially in the wake of “the untimely death of Artemus Ward.” The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “All modern American literature,” Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ ” Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z Almost 150 years after Mark Twain sent Jim down the Mississippi River, we still can’t decide whether that portrayal was a breakthrough or another inscription of racism. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z I see Jack as in the tradition of Mark Twain or Will Rogers. Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z Not normally an on-stage performer, Michaels recalls the Mark Twain evening as “mostly nerve-wracking” because he spent the evening dreading the traditional end-of-night speech he had to deliver. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z He won an Emmy in 1991 for his work on the short-lived sitcom "Davis Rules" and was given the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999. Manic comic Jonathan Winters dead at 87 2013-04-13T04:51:34Z Surprisingly, some of the singers also miss the mark, sometimes just by millimeters, but as Mark Twain observed, that's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 'Motown' is music to the ears, but the message is missing 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Stevenson's criticisms appear in a brief, long-lost essay published Friday in The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. that has published obscure texts by Mark Twain, Graham Greene and other famous authors. Long-lost essay by 'Dr. Jekyll' author published 2013-03-14T11:45:09Z I’m talking about a single character, a 13-year-old boy invented almost 130 years ago by Mark Twain. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z It’s a message in a bottle, a piece of forgotten pop culture that suggests, as Mark Twain once put it, that history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Bill Murray accepts the Mark Twain Prize with a little help from his friends. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Good Girls Revolt’ and Bill Murray 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of my favorite authors in literature are guys that are great portrayers of childhood, but not necessarily childish - Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl. A Minute With: Guillermo del Toro on "Rise of the Guardians" 2012-11-21T15:03:03Z She calls Henry David Thoreau’s prose “as invigorating as a salt sea-wind” and joins a “girls’ Mark Twain reading club,” the Huckleberry Finners. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “Like Mark Twain, Jay Leno has offered us a lifetime’s worth of humorous commentary on American daily life,” said Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein, in the announcement. Jay Leno to receive Mark Twain prize for American humor 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The most recent kerfuffle over Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” concerned the teaching of the book in American public schools. Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z It was the Kennedy Center Honors in 2014, not the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last year. She Speaks Truth to the Funny Men in Power 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Adapting James Frey’s infamously fictionalized memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book’s truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain. ‘A Million Little Pieces’ Review: Cracking Up 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z But, when I went and looked at the ever-renewing browser again, the first thing to pop up was from Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Most of the paintings are inspired by Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” but have no words or messages scrawled over them. More Art to See in Paris This Fall 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z And we’re celebrating Mark Twain this year because he was Mark Twain. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z I keep a broad selection of Mark Twain. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Then, in the mid-1990s, when he began to look like Mark Twain, Mr. Post created “Mark Twain and the Laughing River,” a show that married his songs to Twain’s words. Jim Post, Known for a Memorably ‘Groovy’ Hit Song, Dies at 82 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “Like Mark Twain, Julia has enriched American culture with her iconic, unforgettable, and outright hilarious brand of humor,” said Deborah F. Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center in the announcement Wednesday morning. Julia Louis-Dreyfus to receive the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z There are North Korean fans of everything from Mark Twain’s short stories to bootleg Schwarzenegger movies. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z "This is new stuff, even for Mark Twain fans," Hirst told the San Francisco Chronicle. Lost Mark Twain newspaper stories recovered by UC Berkeley scholars 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z It reminds us that, whether we are talking about Thomas Nast or Stephen Colbert, Mark Twain’s observation will always hold: “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z I think of it like Robin Hood or Mark Twain. Zemeckis uses 3-D to make wire-walker’s story ‘bigger than life’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It was in Connecticut that he began acting, joining an amateur troupe called the Mark Twain Maskers in Hartford and taking classes from Eva Le Gallienne at the White Barn Theater in Westport. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z What a field day Mark Twain would have had with that. Harpo Marx, South Carolina’s Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Well, I’m a big fan of Mark Twain. Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z We found manual clickity-clack typewriters and old books on shelves, and icons of Southern literature on walls: Truman Capote, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty. New Orleans’ offbeat charms are showcased in these off-the-beaten-path destinations 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the Kennedy Center in Washington announced a lineup of star comedians who will perform in Ferrell's honor for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Jack Black, Conan to salute Will Ferrell in DC 2011-09-14T16:34:09Z Mark Twain’s hero uses 19th-century technology to outsmart medieval sorcerers in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Patrick deWitt’s previous novel, “The Sisters Brothers,” was a splendid work of historical fiction that proudly wore its comic influences — Mark Twain and Charles Portis — on its broad and violence-scarred shoulders. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z I feel like Mark Twain was part statesman, part drunk uncle and part bard. Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain Topics: , BERLIN, Germany — At the end of the newest children’s film in Germany, a man with a white mustache, wild hair and twinkle in his eyes makes an appearance. Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z His contributions were recognized by his peers, by comedy aficionados and, in 2000, by the Kennedy Center, which awarded him the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The grave marker is 2 fathoms high -- the measure from which Samuel Clemens took his pen name, Mark Twain. Alleged Mark Twain grave plaque bandit revealed 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But I bet Mark Twain would be good company to walk across Spain with. Andrew McCarthy Harbors a Secret Fantasy to Play Fagin 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Eddie Murphy showed his appreciation for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night by doing something he hasn’t done in almost 30 years. Eddie Murphy’s first joke onstage in 28 years: It’s about Bill Cosby 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z “Like Mark Twain, Julia has enriched American culture with her iconic, unforgettable, and outright hilarious brand of humor,” Deborah F. Rutter, the president of the Kennedy Center, said in a statement. Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Be Awarded Mark Twain Prize for Humor 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Nor is she the sorceress and strumpet Shakespeare depicts in “Henry VI, Part 1” or the romantic lass in petticoats Mark Twain imagines in his final novel, “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Also, she was prolific, writing more novels than Melville, Hawthorne, Stowe and Mark Twain combined. The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Vonnegut was on more solid ground when he considered whether the young Wolfe more resembled Mark Twain or an extra member of the Beatles. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z I enjoyed Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” and Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose,” as well as Ernest Hemingway’s writing. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Nichols is quick to quote Mark Twain, and critics and early viewers have likened “Mud,” with its boyhood escapades, to “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z Where do you see “Tom Sawyer” or Mark Twain in our national history of books? Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z One recently ordered a complete set of the Oxford Mark Twain, a 29-volume collection of works by the beloved American author with forewords by Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Island Books creates a reading oasis on Mercer Island 2010-06-28T03:36:00Z “When Mark Twain first emailed me about the Mark Twain prize, I have to admit I totally misunderstood. I thought I was being asked to honor someone else,” Louis-Dreyfus said. Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts the Twain Prize: ‘Anybody would be lucky to be part of a night like this honoring someone like me’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z And as long ago as 1866, a young Mark Twain advertised his first lecture. Why Melissa Leo may find it does not pay to advertise 2011-02-23T20:00:00Z But many disagreed, including Mark Twain, who called JM Barrie's story "a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age". Peter Pan – a YouTube roundup 2012-12-05T16:18:33Z “The Carol Burnett Show” won 23 Emmy Awards and Burnett went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and become a Kennedy Center honoree. Carol Burnett honored with eponymous Golden Globe award 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors and there's a scene in Tom Sawyer where Tom swims into the middle of the Mississippi River and takes a nap on the sand bar. Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud" 2012-05-26T12:35:13Z But she didn’t stay away from de la Renta long, wearing his tea-length frock in black lace in October at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gala. Tina Fey’s style: no funny business, just glamour 2014-01-11T00:30:27Z Murray is this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Emma Stone, Jane Curtin join Bill Murray tribute in DC 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Twain’s decree will be put to the test when the University of California Press publishes the first of three volumes of the 500,000-word “Autobiography of Mark Twain” in November. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z The 64-page, handwritten document is among a trove of 200 personal letters, manuscripts and photographs of Mark Twain - the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens - going on sale June 17 at Sotheby's New York. Unpublished Twain family sketch set for NY auction 2010-04-21T07:04:00Z Eddie Murphy, known for his sharp comic observations and salty language, will receive the Kennedy Center’s 2015 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Eddie Murphy to receive Kennedy Center’s 2015 Mark Twain Prize 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z And the distance between them made for moments that suggested something akin to Virginia Woolf paraphrasing Mark Twain. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z Humor, Mark Twain said, is tragedy plus time. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z He admired the writing of Mark Twain and continued to read literary fiction and historical books throughout his life. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He has a deep love for the river, something he’s proud to share with Mark Twain, perhaps the most famous of all Mississippi River pilots. “Water is where I find my peace”: Meet the master river pilot who conquers the Mississippi every day 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Following the Equator By Mark Twain How does Mark Twain fit in here, and his journey around the English-speaking world in Following the Equator? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Giving the Crowd What It May Not Crave A LATTER-DAY Mark Twain may eventually coin the perfect name for the current era of failing institutions and diminished expectations. The Comic Louis C. K. Has a New Show on FX 2010-06-18T16:28:00Z The captain is a proud communist — dig the irony! — and he bubbles over with quotes from Karl Marx, Mark Twain, Noam Chomsky and other easily Googled sources of left-wing wisdom. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The story, set in the present, recycles characters and incidents from those Mark Twain classics with an unabashed nostalgia. Review: ‘Band of Robbers’ Riffs on Mark Twain Characters in Today’s Missouri 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In popular culture today, Twain is “Colonel Sanders without the chicken, the avuncular man who told stories,” Ron Powers, the author of “Mark Twain: A Life,” said in a phone interview. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z "I'm a big fan of Mark Twain's. In fact, 'A Tale of Two Cities' is one of my favorite books!" U.S. comedian Leno tapped for Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “If Mark Twain had written Huckleberry Finn’s further adventures, those that took place after he lit out for the territories, they could hardly better Jack Crabb’s pungent recollections of the Old West.” Thomas Berger, author of ‘Little Big Man’ and other novels, dies at 89 Quotations from sources as varied as Thelonious Monk, Mark Twain and Dr. Seuss appear on screen, imbuing the movie with unearned significance. ‘Jake Squared,’ a Midlife-Crisis Romantic Comedy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z And you’ve even got your history of tourism: Bermuda was one of the original island getaways for wealthy Americans, counting Mark Twain among its fans. Hurricane Season, Bargain-Hunting in Bermuda 2010-09-22T03:01:00Z In "Is He Dead?" by Mark Twain, as adapted from the 1898 text by contemporary playwright David Ives, there's a tedious first act before there's substantial humor. Artist thinks he's better off (playing) dead in Twain comedy 2012-09-21T20:28:03Z You'll miss these if you don't travel soon: "Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress" and a collection of black-and-white drawings by Pop genius Roy Lichtenstein end Jan. 2. A New York museum march, made (somewhat) easy 2010-12-15T23:05:05Z DeGeneres was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last year. Ellen DeGeneres brings TV show to Australia 2013-03-22T12:00:12Z Mr. Bell pointed to the rumors surrounding Mark Twain in 1897, to which he famously responded, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Noted: Celebrity Hoax Death Reports 2012-09-19T23:27:26Z In any case, she joins them in a collection that also includes documents from Mark Twain, Jack London and Charles Bukowski. Gloria Molina donates her papers to Huntington Library 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In spite of my lifelong desire to share my life, I had taken Mark Twain's advice: "Happiness is a choice." A love affair in life's last act 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented the comedian with the Mark Twain Prize, the nation’s top prize for humor. Eddie Murphy awarded America's top prize for comedy 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Who said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”? Quiz: Mark Twain 2010-04-21T09:14:00Z This text of Mark Twain was in line with the internationalism and cross-cultural, cross-pollination that has inspired so many anticolonial causes. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z If Mark Twain were around today, do you think he’d have a difficult time finding an agent and getting published? George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z While receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, Murphy riffed on the award, which Cosby won in 2009. Eddie Murphy's First Onstage Joke in 28 Years Was About Bill Cosby 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The last in the family to own it was Myron Benton, a poet and writer whose pals include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau, all of whom visited regularly. The Hotel Historian Is at Your Service 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The Kennedy Center Honors will be moved to March 7, 2021, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony is set for June 20 next year. Kennedy Center cancels most of schedule through 2020 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Bellow and J. D. Salinger, born four years apart, reintroduced “voice” into American fiction, reviving the iconoclastic spirit of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A century after his death, Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z Honors have come her way, including multiple Emmys and the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015. Ellen DeGeneres says show is ‘happy place’ for final season 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z April marks 100 years since the death of Samuel L. Clemens, a writer whose literary stock rose fast, beginning in the mid-1860s, when he re-christened himself Mark Twain, and has remained blue chip ever since. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z Murray was awarded the 19th Mark Twain Prize for making an impact on U.S. society similar to Twain's. Comedian Bill Murray awarded Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Vanilla Ice plays Mark Twain in the movie. Vanilla Ice Defends Adam Sandler's 'Ridiculous Six' Film 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical monologues, James Joyce’s erotic letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh and “Antigone.” At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Museum building in a real-estate obsessed city that Mark Twain called “superbly beautiful” — in the sunny heart of a proud “sporting nation” — often requires overcoming a barrage of negativity. Can the Sydney Modern Change How a ‘Sporting Nation’ Sees Itself? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Even after Harte’s death in 1902, Mark Twain pursued the vendetta. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Commonly attributed to Mark Twain, that quotation instead appears to be a descendant of a line published centuries ago by the satirist Jonathan Swift. That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Dave Chappelle was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Sunday, an award considered the top honor in comedy. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Bronx, USA’ and ‘Baroness von Sketch Show’ 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” may traffic in the “n-word,” but his “Puddin’ Head Wilson” is a far more deeply and trenchantly racist book. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words 2011-01-05T12:18:09Z "Her latest book got a lot of flak," said Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley, which compiles authoritative editions of everything Twain ever wrote. Laura Skandera Trombley is named new president of Huntington Library 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z "Some people feel this is Mark Twain's satire on reconstruction and how difficult life was after the Civil War," Powers says. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z A school district in Virginia has pulled copies of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Mark Twain’s classic "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" after a parent’s complaint. Banning 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? Virginia school pulls books after parent's complaint 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z "My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words," he wrote on the social network, before paraphrasing a quote from Mark Twain. Former MSNBC anchor Olbermann says career not dead 2011-01-25T04:17:30Z My favorable review of “Mark Twain Tonight!” at the Warner Theatre — a solo show he had been performing for 50 years — had run in The Post that day. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z If Mark Twain were alive to update “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” surely he would swap out the boy’s raft for a sporty red convertible. Just in time for summer: 49 new National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z However, Mark Twain was more than just an author. A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Almost 150 years after Mark Twain sent Jim down the Mississippi River, we still can’t decide whether that portrayal was a breakthrough or another inscription of racism. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z To paraphrase a quip about history often attributed to Mark Twain, geological events don’t repeat themselves but they often rhyme. How Earth’s tumultuous history gave the Mid-Atlantic its beloved destinations 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Layne, 67, is a Mark Twain impersonator, and for men in his business this is something of a golden age. Mark Twain, Now a Career for the Mustachioed 2011-01-23T23:08:20Z Satire commensurate to our age requires a darker alchemy of wit written with what Mark Twain called “a pen warmed up in hell.” Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When certain publishers removed the "n— word" from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there was a widespread outcry – and it was based on some very solid grounds. Dire Straits' homophobic faux-pas 2011-01-18T16:33:25Z A picture of Mark Twain standing on the stage. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z Photograph: Merrick Morton To paraphrase Mark Twain, the first author to ever submit a typewritten manuscript, I think that reports of the typewriter's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z The Mormons attempted to blame the murder of children and women on Indians, though Mark Twain and others believed that the “Indians” were likely Mormons in war paint. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z The Mark Twain prize, now in its 14th year, recalls the social commentary and satire of Samuel Clemens, the writer known as Mark Twain. Jack Black, Conan to salute Will Ferrell in DC 2011-09-14T16:34:09Z Like Mark Twain and other literary colleagues, his political views were that of a progressive. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z He received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy in 2004. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Some of the art is whimsical; Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut, for instance, were inveterate doodlers. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z So, Mark Twain stays in the news even 100 years after his death. Censoring Mark Twain's 'n-words' is unacceptable 2011-01-05T17:47:51Z The performers sell these half-witticisms for twice what they’re worth — because, as Mark Twain said, “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z “For years I had many questions about this Mark Twain, the first being, ‘Who is he?’” On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell 2011-10-24T15:04:24Z But those things are connected to his life growing up on a farm in Illinois, not so far, really, from the American heartland portrayed by Mark Twain. Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Comic actor, movie star and America’s best friend Bill Murray tried to sum up the emotions of being honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center. Bill Murray accepts Mark Twain Prize: ‘As much as I dreaded this...There’s love.’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Jay Leno will be sociably sassed by fellow TV staples as he accepts the Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. Fallon, Seinfeld among comedians to salute Leno with Kennedy Center’s Twain Prize When Mark Twain chugged by the twin peaks, one active, one dormant, on a steamboat journey across Lake Nicaragua in 1866, he marveled that they looked like two “magnificent pyramids.” New Access to a Nicaraguan Island 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “Mark Twain would have loved Bill Murray – his sense of humor, his mind, and his general illuminated presence. I say no one deserves the Mark Twain prize more than Bill Murray.” Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Back in Cinetic’s offices, when Moore is told of what Talese said, and that he also compared him to Mark Twain, the director looks down at the ground. Michael Moore: 'Donald Trump is a performance artist' 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z And Mark Twain, because he needs to hear some rap. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Mark Twain also satirized the genre in “The Innocents Abroad.” ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z On Tuesday it was announced that Ms. DeGeneres, the comedian and highly animated daytime talk-show host, would be the recipient of the 15th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. ArtsBeat: Ellen DeGeneres to Receive Mark Twain Prize for Humor 2012-05-15T15:26:01Z “They get their impression, their idea of Mark Twain, from these impersonators.” Mark Twain, Now a Career for the Mustachioed 2011-01-23T23:08:20Z “And thank you, Mark Twain, who wrote ‘Tom Sawyer,’ the greatest song every recorded by Rush.” Jay Leno, the King of Late Night, gets his laugh lines at Mark Twain Prize ceremony Will Ferrell will be the 14th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize. ArtsBeat: Will Ferrell to Get Mark Twain Prize 2011-05-12T13:00:48Z Mark Twain is always taught as the man who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, not the man who wrote Following the Equator. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Or is it a literary work along the lines of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where the change of wording will be seen as sacrilegious and artistically offensive? My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z But the highlight, according to the Palmer House's own historical record, was a rousing and apparently hysterically funny speech delivered at 2 a.m. by Mark Twain. Presidential dining moments: Nixon ate what? 2011-02-19T00:02:21Z Mark Twain lived at the Chelsea for a brief time, when it was a co-op apartment building before it became a hotel; it still has a number of permanent residents. Soaking up Manhattan’s literary history: A book lover’s bar-hopping guide 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The prize, which "recognizes people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to Mark Twain," will be handed out at a gala on Oct. Jay Leno to receive Mark Twain prize for American humor 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If you would like to support the Mark Twain Library, feel free to do so at marktwainlibrary.org. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The Associated Press reports that the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, which unearthed the columns, plans to publish them in a forthcoming book. Lost Mark Twain newspaper stories recovered by UC Berkeley scholars 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z He had loved reading for much of his life, from Mark Twain to comics to Norwegian fairy tales, but only as an adult did he find books that had people like himself in them. Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z Henry Miller heard echoes of Mark Twain in it. Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z If you only know the various comic-book and film adaptations of Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” you’re liable to imagine the book as a laugh riot, an exercise in anachronistic fun. Review | Your perfect July 4 read: A book packed with politics, preaching and fireworks 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The topic has been treated more often in popular fare, including the humorous writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, Benjamin Franklin, and Mark Twain. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z Louis-Dreyfus will receive the 21st annual Mark Twain Prize at a nationally televised gala in October. Julia Louis-Dreyfus to receive the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It includes volumes on rivers and riverboats, American history, Native Americans, Lewis and Clark, the Civil War and Southern and Cajun cultures, plus several dozen books by or about Mark Twain. Which cruise ship library is right for you? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z BAYREUTH, Germany — The word we still use is “pilgrimage,” for, as Mark Twain put it back in 1891, “a pilgrimage is what it is.” In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s, Foss wrote a lively opera based on the Mark Twain story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and "The Prince and the Pauper," famous for their stories, will defeat any but the most dedicated Mark Twain fan. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z Keillor had once made the cover of Time, hailed as a latter-day Mark Twain or Will Rogers. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Harry, a spry 85-year-old with a Mark Twain mustache and a wit to match, waved us onto his lush green farm. Explorer: Biking Maine?s Rugged Side 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Long before the word quagmire was applied to Vietnam, Mark Twain used it to describe America’s Philippines entanglement, which he vigorously opposed. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z Not for nothing did Mark Twain say, “I always tell the truth. It’s easier to remember.” On Ben Affleck slavery controversy, a slippery comparison 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Titled “Picking Up the Pieces,” the tour plays April 22 at the Kennedy Center, where Morgan helped salute Mark Twain prize winner Eddie Murphy in the fall. ‘I’m feeling really funny’: Tracy Morgan picks up the pieces on his latest tour 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It is named for novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, and it honors humorists who have had an impact on American society. Q-Tip and Lorne Michaels join tribute to Dave Chappelle at Kennedy Center 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “Mark Twain’s definition of patriotism is this,” he said. David Letterman’s friends — and shrink — make his Twain ceremony as funny as his late-night legacy 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Holbrook will be presented the award when he appears at Hannibal High School on Nov. 17 to perform "Mark Twain Tonight!" Hal Holbrook wins Twain Lifetime Achievement Award 2012-05-17T13:26:13Z But, for now, in the battle between historical accuracy and every single clever observation ever uttered being credited to either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill, the misattributors are winning. Maya Angelou and the Internet’s Stamp of Approval 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain Prize will be awarded in a gala ceremony in the Concert Hall Oct. Jay Leno to get 2014 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at Kennedy Center At times the joshing comic scenes and the spirit of youthful high jinks recall the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. | 'The Burnt Part Boys': Mining Families in Disaster?s Wake at Playwrights Horizons 2010-05-26T02:29:00Z Likened by some critics to the works of Mark Twain, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Truman Capote, Mr. Buechner’s novels were admired by loyal readers for their elegance, wit, depth and force. Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “You know what Mark Twain says: ‘Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”’ Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z "Mark Twain Tonight!" was the result of a two-person show that Holbrook did with his first wife, Ruby, in which they portrayed figures from history and literature, including Twain. 'American Odyssey' chronicles 60 years of Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Among her vast collection of awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and 32 Emmys. Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z He is a writer, and in his own estimation one of only three in American letters worth bothering with, the other two being Mark Twain and J. D. Salinger. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z "The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1" comes out Nov. 15 from the University of California Press, which already has increased the first printing from 50,000 copies to 75,000, the publisher said Tuesday. Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir 2010-10-19T16:50:00Z "My script was partially inspired by the last book published by Mark Twain: The Diaries of Adam and Eve," he has said. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z Murphy offered a reminder of his willingness to do politically incorrect humor by offering some jokes about the 2009 Mark Twain award winner, Bill Cosby – who was one of his “heroes”. Eddie Murphy awarded America's top prize for comedy 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, the national showcase for arts, Letterman, 70, was praised for his imagination, comic daring and heart. David Letterman, celebrated late-night TV host, receives U.S. humor prize 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z I think Mark Twain said that a lie can go around the world before the truth has a chance get its pants on. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, The Kennedy Center announced the lineup of performers for next month's celebration of Murray, who'll receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Letterman, Aykroyd to honor Bill Murray at Kennedy Center 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z "It is commonly referred to as the 'custard apple' because of all the sweetness. Try a cherimoya and you'll understand why Mark Twain called the fruit 'the most delicious known to man.'" 5 rare pieces of produce to try this spring, according to an expert international grocery buyer 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Together they mounted one of Kilmer’s largest undertakings, the one-man stage show “Citizen Twain,” in which he played Mark Twain. Val Kilmer on a life in illusion and the new doc ‘Val’ 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z In 2000 he won the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center. Carl Reiner, comedy legend and "Dick Van Dyke Show" creator, dies at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z A stand-up comic who drew from the examples of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, Gregory delivered political satire with a folksy touch. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Leno will be honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a performance by his fellow comedians Oct. Jay Leno to win nation’s top humor prize in DC 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Many canonical titles are not on the list, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain being one example. James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms 2014-04-24T11:30:01Z On Sunday evening, Louis-Dreyfus was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, the national showcase for arts. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of Seinfeld and Veep, awarded U.S. humor... 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z “Mark Twain is always an adventure, and he was such an in-depth person,” she said. Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z Laugh-out-loud funny in one frame and heartbreaking in the next, these tales of innocence and experience belong on the shelf with Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” Lynda Barry: ‘Everything: Part I’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Mark Twain swooned over Ometepe’s volcanic peaks in his “Travels With Mr. Brown.” In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Moore is a humorist and a polemicist, styling himself after Mark Twain and Will Rogers, and never hesitates to stretch veracity past the breaking point in order to make a point or crack a joke. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z A popular saying — often attributed to Mark Twain — goes: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Set a tomato timer? Eat a frog? Be like Ike? Comparing 5 common productivity systems. 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Tomlin — the 75-year-old comedian whose accolades include seven Emmy Awards and the center’s 2003 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — said she assumed it was only an invitation to the ceremony. Hanks and Tomlin Among New Kennedy Center Honorees 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The result is as close as you’ll ever get to eating with Mark Twain without a time machine. Review | Nick Offerman would like to invite you to dinner 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Four Tony awards ended up on his shelves, along with that Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Along the way, the reader meets Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, Upton Sinclair, Mark Twain, Jack London and a host of other historical characters, though they may not be precisely who they seem. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z Mark Twain disbelieved in Shakespeare because he thought that fiction had to be the finessing of fact, grounded in personal history. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z “The Library of America is the symbol for itself that the United States has been in search of,” he wrote in review of a collection of Mark Twain’s work. ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Instead, the names of writers are projected against the back wall as a voice reads aloud: Samuel Beckett, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, Grace Paley. Review: ‘NewYorknewyork @Astor Place,’ a Multilayered Production 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The artist’s frizzy gray hair and bushy mustache give him a Mark Twain air. Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He recounts the antics of Western gold and silver prospectors whose outlandish conduct was immortalized by Mark Twain. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z Citing Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and the SNL “Weekend Update” anchors — “In that order,” she said — Fey argues that jokes have long had an essential role in cultural critique. In ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,’ Tina Fey finds a character tailor-made for her 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Padgett said that no decisions have been made regarding events past Aug. 8, including the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and the Kennedy Center Honors. ‘Hamilton’ run postponed as Kennedy Center extends closure through Aug. 8 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A 19th-century French painter fakes his own death to raise the value of paintings in Mark Twain’s farce. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 8-15: 'Helen Lawrence,' Karen Finley and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Lewis, Mark Twain and many other literary authors, as well as passages from canonical and apocryphal scriptures. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity Mr. Kaplan won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1967 for his first book, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” published the year before. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z Mark Twain meets Malcolm X in his sentences. Review: ‘Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim’ Studies the Life of a Pimp 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z All American literature," he claims, "comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Mud – review 2013-05-11T23:07:24Z Mark Twain, when he met her, realised there was something special about her early on, and gathered a group of friends to pay for her education and put her through university. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z "It was night time and we had just gotten off of the Mark Twain" boat ride. Russi Taylor, the voice and personality of Minnie Mouse 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z I once went on a date with a guy who asked me this exact same icebreaker question, and when I answered “Mark Twain,” he said, “No, the person has to be real.” Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Actor Bill Murray became the 19th person to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a star-studded ceremony in Washington on Sunday, where friends and colleagues paid tribute to his long comedic career. Bill Murray Accepts Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z In 1906, Mark Twain, dressed in his signature white suit, addressed the Senate patents committee as he argued for the extension of copyright protection. Don’t blame Jon Stewart for Donald Trump: Comedy Central didn’t make America fall for “fake news” and “post-truth” 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Tributes to Ivins were widespread, and she was frequently likened to Mark Twain. Loving Molly Ivins, and Getting Her to the Stage 2010-03-20T04:13:00Z Appearing in a video clip, Steve Martin, himself a Mark Twain Prize winner, said, "I'd like to say to you, welcome to the club. And to the Kennedy Center, I'd like to say - really?" Comedian Bill Murray awarded Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Comedian and hometown hero Dave Chappelle was celebrated for his fearless commentary on American culture Sunday night, when he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Dave Chappelle accepts the Twain Prize: ‘I love my art form. It saved my life.’ 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Crouch was raised in Los Angeles by his mother and from childhood on wanted to learn, reading William Faulkner, Mark Twain and other canonical writers and teaching himself how to drum. Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Mark Twain lived at the Chelsea for a brief time, when it was a co-op apartment building before becoming a hotel; it still has a number of permanent residents. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z After all, imitating the sound of Asian languages is something of a national pastime, from Mark Twain and Bret Harte’s “Ah Sin” to Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar’s “Cream of Sum Yung Guy.” When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z New bestseller, old unread download or public domain Mark Twain? Music streaming services unleash a torrent of digital playlists 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Over the years, Holbrook took “Mark Twain Tonight!” to numerous foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia. Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Twain, dies at 95 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z She was raised in Hickman, right on the Mississippi River, and she’s quick to point that “Mark Twain actually called it ‘a pretty town, perched on a handsome hill.’” True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Winters was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999. Comedian Jonathan Winters dead at 87 2013-04-12T17:22:32Z Nov. 22: Billy Collins , another former poet laureate, raconteur and first annual recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry. Seattle Arts & Lectures brings Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Kidder, Jonathan Franzen and more to the NW 2010-06-11T20:34:00Z More than 130 years after the publication of Mark Twain’s masterpiece — a novel that Hemingway called the beginning of “all modern American literature” — we still don’t know. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z This is hardly a groundbreaking pronouncement, but it feeds into his commitment to play Mark Twain in a one-man show he wrote called "Citizen Twain." "Val" captures the bittersweet paradox of Kilmer's life and art, both hamstrung by his own intensity 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Even if I hadn’t grown up in Missouri, I’d still pick Mark Twain. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z One appreciation described his childhood as "some hybrid tale of E.T.A. Hoffmann upon Mark Twain," and his stories of camp life and voodoo held men and women spellbound while he was alive. Swept away by 'What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z After consulting a few other scholars, Mr. Bird brought the text to the attention of the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, which sold it to Doubleday Books for Young Readers. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, there's something almost 19th century, almost Mark Twain, about Franco's desire to be a writer and a director and a producer and a whatever else, along with a movie star. Great Oscar debate: Why was Franco nominated? 2011-02-24T21:20:00Z Lyon would eventually collude with Twain’s business manager, Ralph Ashcroft, to try to dupe Twain into ceding authority over his finances to a Mark Twain Company that controlled even the Mark Twain brand name. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z You seem to be the opposite of many writers who deal in satire, such as Mark Twain, whose work became darker and darker as he aged. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z I’m reaching back into hiding places for the clues that whispered warnings, tugging at the mind, weeping in the dark unanswered,” Holbrook writes in “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain.” Life Onstage With John Lithgow and Hal Holbrook 2011-10-02T16:04:46Z The former host of "The Tonight Show" is feted in "Jay Leno: The Mark Twain Prize." TV This Week Nov. 23 - 29: 'The Whale: Revenge From the Deep' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Mark Twain and George Orwell and Isak Dinesen were something more than they would have been without their pseudonyms, or so it seemed to me,” he writes. John Wray and the art of the pseudonym 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Mark Twain, similarly, often holed up in his writing hut on the campus of Elmira College in upstate New York. Check out ten stylish architectural cabins 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z He had arrived to become the 14th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, an honor reserved for only the most hilarious Americans. On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell 2011-10-24T15:04:24Z Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain lived on adjoining properties in Hartford, and they each agonized over decorating choices and related expenses. Twain and Stowe Homes Being Renovated for Historical Accuracy 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The paper was a big fan of the novel at No. 8, Charles Portis’s “True Grit,” calling it “a western in a yarn-spinning tradition that goes back at least to Mark Twain.” What Did the Fiction Best-Seller List Look Like 25, 50, 75 Years Ago? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “Like Mark Twain, he makes fun of things.” Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Jonathan, an alcoholic who thinks he’s a writer on par with Mark Twain, has been evicted. Being Flynn: Robert De Niro Has Not Given Up After All 2012-03-01T17:31:17Z If you’re a scholar of Mark Twain, there’s probably nothing terribly new in “American Vandal.” A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Jerome Loving, who has written influential biographies of Walt Whitman and Theodore Dreiser, puts the focus of "Mark Twain: the Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" exactly where it belongs. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z I read and reread almost everything Mark Twain wrote but principally “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Life on the Mississippi.” John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z We aren't told that Mark Twain denounced Theodore Roosevelt for approving this massacre in the Philippines. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “Mark Twain and the Holy Land” opens Friday and runs through Feb. 2. Upcoming exhibit highlights Twain’s overseas adventures 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It's like people who ask what would Mark Twain think of women's lib? Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z Murphy, 55, last year received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Comedian Eddie Murphy gets serious in 'Mr. Church' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Fleischman also wrote biographies about Mark Twain and Harry Houdini; his biography of Charlie Chaplin is due out in April. Kids' books: Remembering Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman 2010-04-02T11:24:00Z “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured” is how Mark Twain put it. One Year of #MeToo: A Younger Generation’s Remedy for Rage 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The award is given to those “who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain.” Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots Powers, whose books include an acclaimed biography of Mark Twain and, with James Bradley, “Flags of Our Fathers,” is a deft craftsman of sweeping tours of history but also intensely personal human narratives. One Family’s Story of Mental Illness and What Came After 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z You notice this early in the show in a drawing that simply announces “Mark Twain” in slightly unruly letters, affirming the writer as an implacable fact of American consciousness with a simplicity that presages Twitter. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z According to the Kennedy Center, the prize is given to those who “had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus slams Kavanaugh and his “weird wall calendar” in Mark Twain acceptance sp... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Our favorite part was the homemade root beer and biscuits with gravy at the Mark Twain Family Restaurant. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z Hemingway tears through the history of American literature and leaves only three survivors—Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z A story Mark Twain never finished will gain new life this fall thanks to author Phillip Stead and illustrator Erin Stead. A Children's Story Mark Twain Never Finished Is Coming Soon 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z He writes, “Mark Twain famously deserted from both sides.” Books of The Times: ‘The Deserters,’ a World War II History by Charles Glass 2013-06-09T21:32:20Z President, Mark Twain was still working on his autobiography, and sliced bread hadn’t been invented. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It'd be one thing for a US pol to say Mark Twain. Books and the ballot box 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z Restaurants such as Delmonico’s, which opened in New York in 1837 and served President Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain, are the exception. Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Carthage is right near Hannibal, the home of Mark Twain. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z One of Martin’s first products was the Mark Twain guitar. Antiques: The Furniture and Life of Paul Evans 2014-02-20T23:33:55Z A new mini-series based on Herman Melville’s novel tries to have it both ways, adding a fillip of Mark Twain to the immortal tale of Ahab and the white whale. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain Twain is generally remembered as a sunny, genial humorist but his late works are invigoratingly savage and dark. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z “Paine was a Victorian editor,” said Robert Hirst, curator and general editor of the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, where Twain’s papers are housed. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z Moreover, contrary to persistent legend, Mark Twain didn’t ghost-write the memoirs. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Mark Twain made charred hash of the fact that when poor people steal, they are tossed in jail, while their social betters are diagnosed with “kleptomania” and gently sent for treatment. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z Nichols has in fact been quoted as saying his film is "kind of like if Sam Peckinpah had directed a short story by Mark Twain". Mud – review 2013-05-11T23:07:24Z Contrary to mythology, Mark Twain did not conjure up his masterpieces while puffing cigars on a Southern riverboat. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z At times in this comic novel, I could hear strange echoes of another one about a well-meaning white kid striking out against the racist system of his day: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z On Sunday, Louis-Dreyfus became the sixth woman to receive the Mark Twain Prize in its 20-year history, a theme that threaded through the ceremony. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Once a Last-Minute Addition to ‘Seinfeld,’ Wins Comedy’s Top Honor 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He credited the saying to Mark Twain, though evidence points to Edwin H. Land, the inventor of Polaroid instant photography. Critic?s Notebook: Avoiding ?Moderato? Becomes a Style 2011-04-17T22:15:36Z A stop in Hannibal – Mark Twain's hometown – was interrupted by flash flooding so severe the police were called to rescue drivers trapped in newly formed lakes. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z What book about wit doesn’t contain a single quotation from either Mark Twain or Oscar Wilde? Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The Prince and the Pauper Family-friendly adaptation of the Mark Twain fable. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 22-March 1: 'Confessions of a Mormon Boy' and more 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And there's Fletcher, who entertains and educates audiences about Twain's life every Wednesday in the warmly decorated Mark Twain Library at Camps Restaurant, a short drive from downtown Angels Camp. The frog that jump-started Mark Twain's career 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But he has kept some treasures, including an 1830s guitar that belonged to Mark Twain. Antiques: The Furniture and Life of Paul Evans 2014-02-20T23:33:55Z “The secret source of humor,” Mark Twain famously noted over a century ago, “is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.” Review | TV writer Danielle Henderson finds the humor in her own harrowing life story 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Humour, as Mark Twain realised, is tragedy plus time. The Big Sick's Kumail Najiani and Emily Gordon: 'In America, the idea of a cross-cultural relationship is still controversial' 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z They have been at least since Mark Twain wrote his satirical novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” with Charles Dudley Warner in 1873. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mark Twain and George Orwell and Isak Dinesen were something more than they would have been without their pseudonyms, or so it seemed to me. What’s in a Pen Name? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford in 1956, Mr. Roat acted with the Mark Twain Masquers and other local theatrical groups. Richard Roat, Seen on ‘Cheers,’ ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld,’ Dies at 89 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Coetzee attributed to Mark Twain and paraphrased this way: “When an American writer does not know how to end a story, he shoots everyone in sight.” A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book. 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Those years set her apart and changed the show, said Mark Krantz, an executive producer of the Mark Twain prize. Tina Fey to get top Mark Twain humor prize in DC 2010-05-25T16:52:00Z What was best about us was our ingrained quality of doubt toward highfalutin theories and our conviction in the decency of the common man, as evident in Thomas Jefferson as in Mark Twain. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Mark Twain’s fiction held a soft spot for the flimflam man. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In 2014, the Kennedy Center announced that Capital One would underwrite the arts center’s new comedy series, as well as its Mark Twain Prize. Is the Kennedy Center cornering the market on comedians? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z In his day, he was "the Jewish Mark Twain." 'Sholem Aleichem' documents 'the Jewish Mark Twain' 2011-09-29T20:01:06Z Her books on how women helped shape the life of Mark Twain, America's greatest literary celebrity, have sparked controversy among scholars. Laura Skandera Trombley is named new president of Huntington Library 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “The happiest place on Earth,” the announcer reminded us from a speaker somewhere near the Mark Twain Riverboat, drawing our eyes to the lush topiaries molded into Disney characters. The Disney Adventure, Without the Kids 2012-07-19T21:31:15Z A. O. Scott’s essay on the subject for the Times last month traced our national resistance to grownup responsibilities all the way back to the works of James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain. S. E. Hinton, “The Outsiders,” and the Birth of Y.A. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Have you ever read "The Autobiography of Mark Twain"? James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z Smith received an Emmy for his work on the V film Mark Twain Tonight! Dick Smith obituary 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “The Library of America is the symbol for itself that the United States has long been in search of,” Clive James once wrote, in a review of a collection of Mark Twain’s work. ‘Football’ and Other Books of the Season 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “Nature is built on a stupendous plan in that region,” Mark Twain once wrote of the valley leading into Zermatt. 36 Hours in Zermatt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Achieving that goal means the cartoonist will be able to throw a book release party at the historic Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn. Tom Tomorrow's omnibus book tops $310,000 on Kickstarter 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z She won a role in “A Connecticut Yankee,” a Crosby musical based on the Mark Twain story, after Deanna Durbin dropped out to retire to France. Rhonda Fleming, film star of ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Nick Offerman, the deadpan comedian from “Parks and Recreation,” has long been a fan of Mark Twain, the cigar-chomping master of deadpan comedy. Review | Nick Offerman would like to invite you to dinner 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z These remarkably accomplished novels — focusing on struggles for political power in, respectively, Renaissance Italy, late-17th-century Scotland and the so-called Dark Ages — earned Bowen acclaim from such literary eminences as Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle. Review | ‘Black Magic’ is an oft-overlooked thriller. Don’t overlook it. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Those influences have been woven together, along with classic Americana from Mark Twain to Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, to give shape to “The Burnt Part Boys.” Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z Slaves seeking freedom, as well as abolitionists and people of principle—Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau—flee north to Canada, where Susan B. Anthony leads a successful drive for women’s suffrage. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Finish with a stroll around Washington Square Park paying homage to poets and writers from Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The Kennedy Center awarded Michaels the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2004, and in 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's top civilian honor. In second Honors this year, Kennedy Center to recognize Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Lorne Michaels, Berry Gordy and Justino Díaz 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Rubenstein also devoted $1 million to support major events, such as the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Rubenstein gives $10 million to Kennedy Center 2010-09-22T15:27:00Z His book is a compelling story about a man who, after the death of Mark Twain in 1910, was America's most prominent author. 'Wolf': The fantastic true-life story of Jack London 2010-05-26T23:58:00Z In 2009, he was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and appeared to be poised for a major comeback when the charges against him were revived last year. Bill Cosby issue flares anew after 2005 deposition is released 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Smith, in a statement, called Lee “the literary titan of comic books” and “our modern-day Mark Twain.” Stan Lee’s devoted fans can mourn him at Hollywood memorial 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He’s working in the satiric tradition of Mark Twain, who also couldn’t resist some cheap shots at Mormons. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z To begin with, Mark Twain was brought up with the Bible. Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year 2014-04-03T13:40:22Z In a statement paraphrasing Mark Twain, McHale says reports of the show’s cancellation were “greatly exaggerated.” ‘Community’ rebounds with new episodes on Yahoo 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z His father loves Mark Twain, and Michael became Huckleberry Finn, a moralist in disguise. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Essentially, then, the water Orange County residents use could be the same water they sailed across on the Mark Twain Riverboat when they last visited Disneyland. Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In the nineteen-nineties, when you bought a book at Barnes & Noble the cashier slipped it into a plastic bag bearing a black-and-white illustration of an author’s face—Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton. Christine Smallwood: Phyllis Rose’s “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES” 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Comedians Martin Short and Steve Martin, a previous Mark Twain honoree, needled Letterman about his bushy white retirement beard with a line touching on the country's current divisive political atmosphere. David Letterman Receives Mark Twain Prize 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z I've got fair skin and Irish stock, but eventually my beard-growing potential put me in a class with Karl Marx, Mark Twain and the Taliban. Failure and the five o'clock shadow: Teaching my 11-year-old son how to shave 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z "If you're going to steal stuff from somebody you should steal stuff from somebody really intelligent and I stole things from Mark Twain," he told reporters ahead of the film's world premiere later on Saturday. Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud" 2012-05-26T12:35:13Z In elementary school, she read Dickinson and Mark Twain, and began to think of herself as a writer. Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Humor has shaped the consciousness of American life perhaps more than anything else. Do you know who was president when Mark Twain was at his peak? Benjamin Harrison. Who the hell was Benjamin Harrison?” Cult favorite John Lurie is back, with an old alter ego 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I’m going to butcher the Mark Twain quote, but every person’s life is a comedy, a drama and a tragedy. ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z They’re a prime example of Mark Twain’s warning: “There is no education in the second kick of a mule.” Column: The shutdown looms, and Speaker Mike Johnson has nothing 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Mark Twain’s 1894 masterpiece, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is nothing if not a powerful indictment of the evils of slavery, despite its repeated use of the N-word. Opinion: Censorship rears its ugly head at Santa Monica College, over a play about slavery 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether,” Mr. Stewart said in 2021 for winning the Mark Twain Award. New details of China’s underground nuclear facilities 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z She asked her teacher for book recommendations and then surprised him by revealing some of her own favorite authors, including Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway — all of whom she had read in translation. Why this AI pioneer is calling for 'human centered' computing 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Mark Twain is supposed to have said that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Ken Burns looks at history through the eyes of its national mammal in 'The American Buffalo' 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z A Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973 for criticism as a television-radio columnist, he also wrote a biography of Mark Twain and collaborated with the late U.S. Vermont police search for killer of a retired college dean shot on trail near university 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Mark Twain once remarked, “There is no distinctively American criminal class — except Congress.” Legislators for life: Congress was never meant to be a career 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z To quote Mark Twain: "Never let truth get in the way of a good story." Hasan Minhaj and the New Yorker: Who decided comedy needed fact-checking? 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z A quote attributed to Mark Twain, probably incorrectly, states “History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Oops! Are we about to make a WPPSS-style nuclear power mistake again? | Op-Ed | Op-Ed 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z During the later half the century, the region began to transition into a vacationing spot for wealthy San Franciscans and others, including Mark Twain. Biden is vacationing at a Lake Tahoe home. For locals, he’s another tourist tearing them apart 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z “We needed to get this out,” Burns says, citing Mark Twain’s observation that history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Documentary examines how what the U.S. did -- and did not do -- helped shape the Holocaust 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Now, as to Mono Lake, deserving of two chapters in Mark Twain’s book of his western adventures, “Roughing It”: Cities’ thirst nearly killed these California lakes. Not so fast, said our epic wet winter 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z His favorite example is Mark Twain’s autobiography, which the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” author dictated when he was in his 70s. John McPhee calls his new book an "old-people project." Consider the alternative 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z She moved to New York City on a whim in 2009, after reading a quotation from Mark Twain about people coming to regret not going after their dreams. ‘Now, Let’s Be a Starfish!’: Learning With ‘Ms. Rachel,’ Song by Song 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Comedy is tragedy plus time, as Mark Twain is credited with saying, but could enough time ever pass to make decapitation funny? Review: Musical 'Six,' about Henry VIII's wives, is unapologetically revisionist. That's why it's successful 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Though often attributed to Mark Twain, apparently Jonathan Swift was first to say that clever bit about a lie running quickly into the world while the truth limps after, too late to have an effect. Why are Republicans so bad at lying? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z This was what Mark Twain would describe as a “stretcher”: The measure passed the Senate 17-11, with every Republican in favor and every Democrat but one voting against it. Column: Red-state efforts to dumb down their universities will provoke a brain drain 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z She was visited in her dressing room by Gustave Flaubert, while Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses, and Sarah Bernhardt.” Paris exhibit celebrates ‘first celebrity’ Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Some books have been targeted by liberals citing racist language — notably Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — according to Deborah Caldwell-Stone, who directs the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. North Dakota governor vetoes 1 library bill, signs another 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z You may associate it with old Mark Twain stories. The power of American capitalism | David Brooks 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Other good spots to work: the tables near the boarding of the Mark Twain and Sailing Ship Columbia riverboats or Fowler’s Harbor on the border of New Orleans Square and Critter Country. How to have the best day ever at Disneyland — all by your damn self 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z As we now know, to recast Mark Twain, reports of downtown’s death were exaggerated. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The Bohemian Club was started by journalists, artists and musicians in San Francisco in 1872 - Mark Twain was an early member. Clarence Thomas and Bohemian Grove: What goes on at the all-male club? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Students told KABC-TV Channel 7 that the class was reading and discussing a Mark Twain novel that contains the racial slur when the student asked the teacher how to spell the N-word. Fontana teacher captured on video repeatedly saying N-word to student in class 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Punctuating the point, a quote from Mark Twain appeared at the bottom of Mr. Joseph’s gravestone, praising the Eureka rebellion as “a strike for liberty, a struggle for principle, a stand against injustice and oppression.” A Black Man Went to Australia for Gold, Then Stood Up for Democracy 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Johnson had edited the likes of Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, and he believed that Muir’s transcendent prose could help save Yosemite. The odd couple that saved Yosemite 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Adam Sandler was recognized for three decades of writing, acting and directing with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. ‘Succession’ Returns 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z “I was more emotional than I expected... and here we are honoring the Sandman at the Kennedy Center with the Mark Twain Award.” Jennifer Aniston ribs Adam Sandler's Vogue-approved style and his dating advice 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But that only underscores the observation, often attributed to Mark Twain, that “history doesn’t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Column: How DeSantis' attack on education draws from Ronald Reagan's war on UC Berkeley 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Billy Madison is all grown up, winning big prizes like the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — an award previously bestowed on comedians and actors such as Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett. Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain Prize salute from loyal friends, co-stars 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The prize is named after novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Adam Sandler honored with Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z A host of comedic and entertainment royalty gathered at Washington’s Kennedy Center as Sandler was presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Adam Sandler receives Mark Twain Prize, praise from comic pals 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Joined by several of his co-stars and collaborators, comedy legend Adam Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday at the Kennedy Center. Jennifer Aniston ribs Adam Sandler's Vogue-approved style and his dating advice 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Mark Twain recipients are honored with a night of testimonials and video tributes, often featuring previous award winners. Sandler to receive Mark Twain Prize for lifetime in comedy 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain prize recognizes “individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain.” Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain Prize salute from loyal friends, co-stars 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Mark Twain once opined on how fast the weather changes in New England. New England knows winter, but why so dangerously cold? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The comedy institution “SNL” has provided more than its share of the 24 Mark Twain recipients. Adam Sandler receives Mark Twain Prize, praise from comic pals 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Classics such as Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” have been pulled from reading lists. School librarians vilified as the ‘arm of Satan’ in book-banning wars 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z CNN will broadcast this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, taking over a star-studded Kennedy Center awards show that has been aired by PBS for the past two decades. CNN to air Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Adam Sandler 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z His approach is more in line with Mark Twain's reputed aphorism, "History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes." How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser, born in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, respectively, were products of that culture, as was Willa Cather, who came of age in Nebraska. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z It has also landed Kobabe in the company of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Mark Twain, authors whose canonical works on race, gender and free expression have been on and off banned lists for decades. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z |
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