Folks, here is a wide-ranging and entertaining review of a number of recent works on MT (though at times a tad dismissive), published in the latest TLS; including some relatively nice things to say about our new edition of the Twain-Twichell letters. I suppose we can forgive the dismissive tone of some of in exchange for being cited in TLS! https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/ [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/s3/tls-prod/uploads/2018/10/p3-Karlin.jpg]<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/> The difficulties in dealing with Mark Twain | Daniel Karlin<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/> www.the-tls.co.uk Mark Twain continues to bedevil the academy, if not the reading public. Like Kipling, he has been by turns reviled and revered, often for the wrong reasons. Dr. Hal Bush Dept. of English Saint Louis University [log in to unmask] 314-977-3616 http://halbush.com author website: halbush.com
