Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:15:17 -0800
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OK - I have 6 grandkids aged 2 and up, in California, who are already Twain fans - if there's a single copy copy left, send it to me, e-version or USPS (if it's still in business). Sounds great!
Richard R.
The Altenheim Senior Housing
1720 MacArthur Boulevard Apt 127
Oakland 94602-1776
96402-1776
--- On Tue, 1/3/12, Caroline Lawrence <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Caroline Lawrence <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Twain in a new kids' book
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 9:30 PM
> Jules=2C tell me your postal address
> [log in to unmask]
> Susan I'll reserve the other one for you unless you are
> happy for someone e=
> lse to have it.=20
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> > Date: Tue=2C 3 Jan 2012 18:59:41 +0000
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >=20
> > Oh! I would love one:)
> > May I?
> > Thanks :)
> > Jules
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Caroline La=
> wr=3D
> > ence
> > Sent: Tuesday=2C January 03=2C 2012 12:22 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> >=20
> > Susan=3D3D2C if you or anyone else would like a galley
> of my kids' book f=
> eatu=3D
> > ri=3D3D ng Twain=3D3D2C out 12 February=3D3D2C I have
> two left to give aw=
> ay.=3D3D20=3D
> > The Case of the Deadly Desperados Caroline
> Lawrencehttp://www.carolinela=
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> > ence.com
> > London=3D3D2C England
> >=20
> >=20
> > > Date: Tue=3D3D2C 3 Jan 2012 17:02:08 +0000
> > > From: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Dear John=3D3D2C
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Buon Ani=3D3D2C as they were saying in Rome when
> I left on Sunday. I h=
> ope=3D
> > =3D20
> > >th=3D3D
> > e ye=3D3D3D
> > > ar treats you well.
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Re ALS: are you interested in depictions of Twain
> in works of fiction? =
> =3D20
> > >I=3D3D
> > 'm=3D3D3D
> > > deeply into John Sayles' novel A Moment in
> the Sun=3D3D2C a=3D20
> > > Dos-Passos-like =3D3D
> > depi=3D3D3D
> > > ction of the events of 1899 (the Wilmington riots
> and the gold-rush in=
> =3D20
> > > Al=3D3D
> > as=3D3D3D
> > > ka=3D3D2C as well as Cuba & the
> Philippines). He has a short chapter o=
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> > > two =3D3D
> > that=3D3D3D
> > > feature Twain as The Humorist=3D3D2C making
> comments about U.S. empire=
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> > > It'=3D3D
> > s ki=3D3D3D
> > > nd of like the Twain glimpses on Star-Trek some
> years ago.
> > >=3D3D20
> > > I can't send them to you b/c I have the book on
> Kindle=3D3D2C but I can=
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> > >tell =3D3D
> > you =3D3D3D
> > > where to find them if you are interested.
> Best=3D3D2C --s
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Susan K. Harris
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Hall Professor of American Literature
> > >=3D3D20
> > > University of Kansas
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the
> Philippines=3D3D2C 1898-190=
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> > >=3D3D20
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]]
> on behalf of John Bird=3D20
> > >[birdj1@=3D3D
> > PE=3D3D3D
> > > OPLEPC.COM]
> > > Sent: Saturday=3D3D2C December 31=3D3D2C 2011
> 3:54 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Reminder: ALS 2011
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Happy New Year=3D3D2C Twainiacs! I hope 2012
> treats us all well.
> > >=3D3D20
> > > I wanted to post a reminder that I will be
> writing the Mark Twain=3D20
> > >chapter for American Literary Scholarship
> 2011=3D3D2C taking over that=
> =3D20
> > >task for our l=3D3D
> > ate
> > > and lamented friend=3D3D2C Michael Kiskis. Please
> send me information=
> =3D20
> > > about articles or books related to Mark Twain
> that were published in=3D=
> 20
> > > 2011. Bet=3D3D
> > te=3D3D3D
> > > r
> > > yet=3D3D2C send me offprints of articles=3D3D2C
> and have your publisher=
> send=3D
> > =3D20
> > > me y=3D3D
> > our
> > > Twain book. Here is my contact information:
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > >=3D3D20
> > > School snail mail address:
> > > John Bird
> > > Department of English
> > > 250 Bancroft Hall
> > > Winthrop University
> > > Rock Hill=3D3D2C SC 29733
> > >=3D3D20
> > > Thank you! Despite the daunting nature of this
> task=3D3D2C I am looking=
> =3D20
> > >forwa=3D3D
> > rd t=3D3D3D
> > > o
> > > it. BTW=3D3D2C I am currently reading Hal
> Holbrook's autobiography=3D3D=
> 2C=3D20
> > > which h=3D3D
> > ad a
> > > pretty scathing review that someone recently
> posted a link to on the=3D=
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> > > Foru=3D3D
> > m.
> > > I am about halfway through=3D3D2C and even though
> he is not to "Mark Tw=
> ain=3D
> > =3D20
> > > Tonight!" yet=3D3D2C and thus the Twain content
> is minimal so far=3D3D2=
> C I am=3D
> > =3D20
> > > fin=3D3D
> > ding i=3D3D3D
> > > t
> > > to be very interesting and well-written. I can
> hear Hal Holbrook's=3D20
> > > voice =3D3D
> > in
> > > my head--which for me=3D3D2C is pretty much Mark
> Twain's voice...
> > >=3D3D20
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > John Bird
> > > [log in to unmask]
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