The Oxford American has polled "134 scholars and writers" -- our own Joy Tipping among them -- to come up with the ten best Southern novels and five best Southern nonfiction books of all time. Joy, who is off reading...
Until Thursday, The New Yorker is offering a free download of John Lithgow reading Mark Twain's latest. Yes, that Mark Twain. Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of unpublished (and some incomplete) work that Los Angeles Times says "is...
I had a little fun shopping for Mark Twain tchotchkes last night. Granted, even among the lowered standards of modern blog-based journalism, this hardly qualifies as newsworthy. Ah, but there is a greater purpose. Specifically, it was my way of...
Before everyone scatters to the beach/mountains/liquor store for the holiday weekend, are you up for a meaningless literary debate? Good, here we go. It's an American literature version of "Beatles vs. Rolling Stones" battle for July 4: Which is...
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