Category Archives: Mark Twain
Good Stuff at First Second
Over the past several years, I’ve been impressed with many of the books coming out of First Second, which is part of Macmillan. They’ve published the volumes in Grady Klein’s Lost Colony series, Yang’s American Born Chinese, Sfar’s Klezmer: Tales of the … Continue reading
A Little of This, a Little of That
My reading has been varied these past several weeks…then again, that’s nothing new. However, in some ways I’ve slowed down a bit, not reading as much as I usually do or as I would like. And also as usual, I’ve … Continue reading
The Twain Has Met
A couple of years ago I wrote an essay for the Mark Twain Circle‘s peer-reviewed journal, Mark Twain Annual, “Meddling with ‘hifalutin foolishness,’” where I looked at relatively recent comics adaptations of Mark Twain, both adaptations of his writing and the … Continue reading