Blogs about: Samuel Clemens
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“The late Bill Nye once said ‘I have been told that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.’” — Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook… more →
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George R. Stewart's forgotten biography of George Derby
wrote 2 days ago: After ORDEAL BY HUNGER, with its landmark Whole Earth vision, George R. Stewart wrote another biogra … more →
EMILY DICKINSON DARES TO WRITE SOMETHING TRUTHFUL
wrote 3 days ago: I went to a bar where there were only women in Amherst I drank a brew, I smelled their stew I yearne … more →
The Art Of The Retweet
wrote 1 week ago: “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out wh … more →
Three Chairs
wrote 1 week ago: “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” – Henry D … more →
Keep Your Identity; Be Wary of the Machine
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wrote 1 week ago: In this day and age of Facebook and Google we tend to easily lose ourselves in a barrage of endless … more →
Book Review: In the Matter of Nikola Tesla: A Romance of the Mind by Anthony Flacco
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wrote 1 week ago: In the Matter of Nikola Tesla: A Romance of the Mind by Anthony Flacco My rating: 5 of 5 stars This … more →
Huck Revisited
wrote 1 week ago: I did a second edit of the post I did earlier today. I switched some paragraphs and added a little b … more →
Mark Twain's Childhood Home
wrote 2 weeks ago: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Tom Sawyer Fence Author: Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) Location … more →
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the classics of American literature was written in less than a year by a man who was in his e … more →
Never the Twain shall meet
wrote 3 weeks ago: “I can’t stand George Eliot and Hawthorne and those people. I see what they are at a hun … more →
Grant’s Last Campaign: Ulysses S. Grant and Samuel Clemens, A Stout Pair
wrote 3 weeks ago: by Robert Earle As Jon Clinch ably demonstrated in Monday’s feature piece, when it came to his own w … more →
Mark Twain -Documentary
wrote 3 weeks ago: Anti-Stratfordian Mark Twain, wrote “Is Shakespeare Dead?” shortly before his death in 1 … more →
Eighteen year-old Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain): "Such is life, and such is Washington!”
wrote 3 weeks ago: Then, if you should be seized with a desire to go to the Capitol, or somewhere else, you may stand i … more →
Mark Twain - 'When in doubt, tell the truth' via American Minute
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wrote 3 weeks ago: “Mark Twain,” a river measurement meaning “12-feet-deep,” was the pen name … more →
Random Thoughts for a Friday - April 19th, 2013
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Four months in to the year and I’m still typing 2012. That’s okay, I put down 2010 in 20 … more →
Ruraliowegian Voted the World's Greatest Blogger of All Time!
wrote 1 month ago: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) said there were three types of lies; lies, damn lies and statistics. As … more →
The First Meaning of "Mark Twain"
wrote 1 month ago: Mention Mark Twain and most envision a time of mischief and fence painting and traveling down the Mi … more →
Mark Twain - Fables of Man (1972)
wrote 1 month ago: If you will look at the matter rationally and without prejudice, the proper place to hunt for the fa … more →
Mark Twain - Fables of Man (1972)
wrote 1 month ago: Take the fly, for instance. The planning of the fly was an application of pure intelligence, morals … more →
