Reads tagged with “Mark Twain”
Norman Rockwell’s Rare Illustrations for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Two of the greatest commentators on culture and sociological observers of American life, together.
Allergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work, Animated
Why why all creative culture is built on “plagiarism, literary debt, appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise…”
Mark Twain on Masturbation
“If you must gamble away your life sexually, don’t play a Lone Hand too much.”
The Geography of Great Literature, in Hand-Lettered Typography
Twain, Didion, Thoreau, White, McCarthy, Eugenides.
Famous Writers on New York: Timeless Private Reflections from Diaries, Letters and Personal Essays
Mark Twain, Susan Sontag, Simone de Beauvoir, E. B. White, Washington Irving, Anaïs Nin, Italo Calvino, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.
Mark Twain on Racism, How Religion Is Used to Justify Injustice, and What His Mother Taught Him About Compassion
“She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.”
From the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley: How Mark Twain Became the Steve Jobs of His Day
The power of mischief, timing, and typography.
The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013
From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.
Mark Twain on Religion and Our Human Egotism
“The human race … sits up nine nights in the week to admire its own originality.”
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