Members of the Mark Twain Forum planning to attend the ALA in San Francisco this week might want to start Twaining early by coming to Stanford on Wednesday evening at 7:30 to attend a staged reading of "Hadleyburg," a new play by Stanford playwright and lecturer Kevin DiPirro based on "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." The play, which will be performed by professional actors, is free and open to the public. Here is the web site describing the event: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/event.php?eid=20093_EVT%20266 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University Mail: Department of English, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2087 [log in to unmask] http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=51 Just published-- The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life & Works Shelley Fisher Fishkin http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=321 Mark Twain's Book of Animals Shelley Fisher Fishkin http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10088.php http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/twainanimals Feminist Engagements: Forays into American LIterature and Culture(a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010) Shelley Fisher Fishkin http://us.macmillan.com/feministengagements The Oxford Mark Twain (New in Paperback) Shelley Fisher Fishkin http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/?view=usa&ci=9780199733491