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Re: Twain Readings
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Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:22:16 -0500
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Dear Michael,

Interestingly, it wasn't just "major" writers whom Twain sometimes
criticized; he also developed a voracious appetite for truly minor authors.
I sketched out some of his proclivities in "'I Kind of Love Small Game':
Mark Twain's Library of Literary Hogwash," AMERICAN LITERARY REALISM 9
(Winter 1976):  64-76.  Twain's friends even starting sending him examples
of badly written books, knowing his fondness for this stuff and soliciting
his explosions of indignation.

Regards,
Alan

Alan Gribben
Auburn University Montgomery

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