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Caroline Lawrence <[log in to unmask]>
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Jules, tell me your postal address [log in to unmask] 
Susan I'll reserve the other one for you unless you are happy for someone else to have it. 

> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 18:59:41 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Oh! I would love one:)
> May I?
> Thanks :)
> Jules
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Caroline Lawr=
> ence
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> 
> Susan=3D2C if you or anyone else would like a galley of my kids' book featu=
> ri=3D ng Twain=3D2C out 12 February=3D2C I have two left to give away.=3D20=
>  The Case of the Deadly Desperados Caroline Lawrencehttp://www.carolinelawr=
> ence.com
> London=3D2C England
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue=3D2C 3 Jan 2012 17:02:08 +0000
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >=3D20
> > Dear John=3D2C
> >=3D20
> > Buon Ani=3D2C as they were saying in Rome when I left on Sunday.  I hope=
> =20
> >th=3D
> e ye=3D3D
> > ar treats you well.
> >=3D20
> > Re ALS: are you interested in depictions of Twain in works of fiction? =20
> >I=3D
> 'm=3D3D
> >  deeply into John Sayles' novel A Moment in the Sun=3D2C a=20
> > Dos-Passos-like =3D
> depi=3D3D
> > ction of the events of 1899 (the Wilmington riots and the gold-rush in=20
> > Al=3D
> as=3D3D
> > ka=3D2C as well as Cuba & the Philippines).  He has a short chapter or=20
> > two =3D
> that=3D3D
> >  feature Twain as The Humorist=3D2C making comments about U.S. empire. =20
> > It'=3D
> s ki=3D3D
> > nd of like the Twain glimpses on Star-Trek some years ago.
> >=3D20
> > I can't send them to you b/c I have the book on Kindle=3D2C but I can=20
> >tell =3D
> you =3D3D
> > where to find them if you are interested.  Best=3D2C  --s
> >=3D20
> > Susan K. Harris
> >=3D20
> > Hall Professor of American Literature
> >=3D20
> > University of Kansas
> >=3D20
> > Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines=3D2C 1898-1902
> >=3D20
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of John Bird=20
> >[birdj1@=3D
> PE=3D3D
> > OPLEPC.COM]
> > Sent: Saturday=3D2C December 31=3D2C 2011 3:54 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Reminder: ALS 2011
> >=3D20
> > Happy New Year=3D2C Twainiacs! I hope 2012 treats us all well.
> >=3D20
> > I wanted to post a reminder that I will be writing the Mark Twain=20
> >chapter  for American Literary Scholarship 2011=3D2C taking over that=20
> >task for our l=3D
> ate
> > and lamented friend=3D2C Michael Kiskis. Please send me information=20
> > about articles or books related to Mark Twain that were published in=20
> > 2011.  Bet=3D
> te=3D3D
> > r
> > yet=3D2C send me offprints of articles=3D2C and have your publisher send=
> =20
> > me y=3D
> our
> > Twain book. Here is my contact information:
> >=3D20
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> >=3D20
> > School snail mail address:
> > John Bird
> > Department of English
> > 250 Bancroft Hall
> > Winthrop University
> > Rock Hill=3D2C SC 29733
> >=3D20
> > Thank you! Despite the daunting nature of this task=3D2C I am looking=20
> >forwa=3D
> rd t=3D3D
> > o
> > it. BTW=3D2C I am currently reading Hal Holbrook's autobiography=3D2C=20
> > which h=3D
> ad a
> > pretty scathing review that someone recently posted a link to on the=20
> > Foru=3D
> m.
> > I am about halfway through=3D2C and even though he is not to "Mark Twain=
> =20
> > Tonight!" yet=3D2C and thus the Twain content is minimal so far=3D2C I am=
> =20
> > fin=3D
> ding i=3D3D
> > t
> > to be very interesting and well-written. I can hear Hal Holbrook's=20
> > voice =3D
> in
> > my head--which for me=3D2C is pretty much Mark Twain's voice...
> >=3D20
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > John Bird
> > [log in to unmask]
>             =3D
            

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