Hello all, I have extended the deadline for submitting proposals for the Mark Twain session at next Fall's SAMLA conference in Charlotte to March 10. I would like to add at least one other presenter to the panel and hope that some of you would like to present a paper. Here is the information: Session title: Hope, Despair, and the Later Mark Twain Program Chair: Jason Horn Secretary: Charles Martin Proposals invited on Twain's later works, those published during his final 15-20 years. Possible topics: Twain as skeptic or believer, determinist or proponent of free will, spiritual seeker or strict materialist, pessimist or optimist, or even nihilist, cynical or depressed or spirited and high-flying, or some combination of one or the other. You may email proposals to me, Jason Horn, at [log in to unmask] Jason