Greetings, I did not know if anyone knew about the book Wild Nights! By Joyce Carol Oats In her book she writes "ingeniously imagine the last documented days (or nights) of Dickinson and four other writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway." the Twain secion is: In “Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish, 1906,” we meet a 70-year-old Mark Twain, weary of impersonating himself for the benefit of countless “upholstered ladies.” Fretting lest he never finish — as he does not — his last magnum opus, Twain consoles himself with the adulation of young schoolgirls, who remind him of his deceased daughter, Suzy. Inducting them into an exclusive Aquarium Club, in which he is the sole adult member, and calling them his angelfish, he gives them little enamel pins and treats like tea at the Plaza Hotel, tickets to “Swan Lake” and a spate of faintly libidinous letters. In return, the girls restore to him, or so he fancies, the ease with which he once wrote. “No one comprehends how a writer, even an acclaimed and best-selling writer, must work,” he cries. But when Grandpa Clemens discovers that his latest pet angelfish is really a ripe 16, he refuses to answer her increasingly plaintive letters. Anorexic, the girl starves herself to look younger, her wrist-bones growing sparrowlike from malnutrition. I thought this was interesting as the session for SAMLA is partly on the Angelfish club. Jules