Thanks for the heads-up, Hal. It's nice to see Alan getting (more)
international recognition.

I subscribe to (and highly recommend, as a general thing) the online
Guardian, so I'd also noticed this interesting piece. I'm still trying to
decide if it's a minus or a hilarious plus that the writer is under the
impression that Twain wrote his "travelogues, time-travel novels and
adventure stories about runaway slaves" during a long career as a
"steamboat captain" -- which, she figures, explains why "he couldn’t keep
many books and those he did carry were often lost." (Her wildly misdirected
notions about the Jumping Frog story are also a lot of fun.)

Ah, well, there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:44 AM Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/01/one-man-read-mark-twain-whole-library-alan-gribben
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> Why would one man read Mark Twain's whole library? | Books | The Guardian<
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/01/one-man-read-mark-twain-whole-library-alan-gribben
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> www.theguardian.com
> Alan Gribben has spent 45 years navigating fakes and tracking down lost
> tomes to study Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s book collection
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> Dr. Hal Bush
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> Dept. of English
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> Saint Louis University
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