Oh! I would love one:) May I? Thanks :) Jules -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Caroline Lawrence Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011 Susan=2C if you or anyone else would like a galley of my kids' book featuri= ng Twain=2C out 12 February=2C I have two left to give away.=20 The Case of the Deadly Desperados Caroline Lawrencehttp://www.carolinelawrence.com London=2C England > Date: Tue=2C 3 Jan 2012 17:02:08 +0000 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Reminder: ALS 2011 > To: [log in to unmask] >=20 > Dear John=2C >=20 > Buon Ani=2C as they were saying in Rome when I left on Sunday. I hope >th= e ye=3D > ar treats you well. >=20 > Re ALS: are you interested in depictions of Twain in works of fiction? >I= 'm=3D > deeply into John Sayles' novel A Moment in the Sun=2C a > Dos-Passos-like = depi=3D > ction of the events of 1899 (the Wilmington riots and the gold-rush in > Al= as=3D > ka=2C as well as Cuba & the Philippines). He has a short chapter or > two = that=3D > feature Twain as The Humorist=2C making comments about U.S. empire. > It'= s ki=3D > nd of like the Twain glimpses on Star-Trek some years ago. >=20 > I can't send them to you b/c I have the book on Kindle=2C but I can >tell = you =3D > where to find them if you are interested. Best=2C --s >=20 > Susan K. Harris >=20 > Hall Professor of American Literature >=20 > University of Kansas >=20 > Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines=2C 1898-1902 >=20 > ________________________________________ > From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of John Bird >[birdj1@= PE=3D > OPLEPC.COM] > Sent: Saturday=2C December 31=2C 2011 3:54 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Reminder: ALS 2011 >=20 > Happy New Year=2C Twainiacs! I hope 2012 treats us all well. >=20 > I wanted to post a reminder that I will be writing the Mark Twain >chapter for American Literary Scholarship 2011=2C taking over that >task for our l= ate > and lamented friend=2C Michael Kiskis. Please send me information > about articles or books related to Mark Twain that were published in > 2011. Bet= te=3D > r > yet=2C send me offprints of articles=2C and have your publisher send > me y= our > Twain book. Here is my contact information: >=20 > Email: [log in to unmask] >=20 > School snail mail address: > John Bird > Department of English > 250 Bancroft Hall > Winthrop University > Rock Hill=2C SC 29733 >=20 > Thank you! Despite the daunting nature of this task=2C I am looking >forwa= rd t=3D > o > it. BTW=2C I am currently reading Hal Holbrook's autobiography=2C > which h= ad a > pretty scathing review that someone recently posted a link to on the > Foru= m. > I am about halfway through=2C and even though he is not to "Mark Twain > Tonight!" yet=2C and thus the Twain content is minimal so far=2C I am > fin= ding i=3D > t > to be very interesting and well-written. I can hear Hal Holbrook's > voice = in > my head--which for me=2C is pretty much Mark Twain's voice... >=20 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > John Bird > [log in to unmask] =