I’m forwarding the following message on behalf of Sue Maher. –Jim Leonard ------------------------------------------------------------------- The 36th annual Western Literature Association meeting will be being held in Omaha, NE this October 17-20. The conference theme is "Headwaters and Watersheds: Literary Tributaries of the West," so Mark Twain scholarship is perfect for this meeting. The Twain session this year will be entitled "Traveling with Twain." Session presenters are: Chair, Dave Raabe, University of Nebraska at Omaha Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "'How the great do tumble': Mark Twain's Later Correspondence to the San Francisco 'Daily Alta California' Chad Rohman, Dominican University, "Life Down the Mississippi as a Main Undercurrent in Mark Twain's 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'" Raychel Reiff, University of Wisconsin-Superior, "To Be or Not To Be: Mark Twain's Burlesque 'Hamlet'" Martin Zehr, Research Medical Center, Kansas City, "Twain's Mississippi and the American West: The Metaphor of Movement" We are also scheduling sessions on other Twain contemporaries (Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte) and 19th-century American literature topics at this meeting. --Sue Maher, President, Western Literature Association