The Center for Mark Twain Studies is pleased to announce the posting of
the following audio file:


Mark Twain's Interviews:  The Final Report

Gary Scharnhorst

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Mark Twain's interviews, all dated between 1871 and 1910 and recently
collected, shed new light on his views on war and military imperialism,
on race and racism, and on his theories about humor.  More specifically,
in his interviews he was outspoken in his opposition to the war in the
Philippines and military aggression; he expressed views on the subject
of race consistent with those of a 19th-century progressive; and he
offered his fullest exposition of his theories of humor.


Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor of English at the University
of New Mexico, editor or author of thirty-five books, editor of American
Literary Realism, and editor in alternating years of American Literary
Scholarship.

To access the audio file, go to:

http://www.elmira.edu/academics/distinctive_programs/twain_center/troubl
e_at_eight/recordings