*I'm looking forward to seeing Mark Twain Forum folks this week -- * * Talk Wednesday, Feb. 12 at Mark Twain House, for series The Trouble Begins at 5:30 * *Mark Twain Writes a Blank Book: The Story of Mark Twain's Self-Pasting Scrap-Book Invention * Mark Twain not only kept scrapbooks, but he invented a scrapbook that didn't need glue. He may have earned more money from this wordless, blank book than from some of the books he wrote.* *This talk will discuss his scrapbook invention. It will explain its roots in the free reprinting of his work that so irritated Twain, and the brilliant way that his scrapbook let him take advantage of that proliferating reprinting. This talk also sheds new light on how and why Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain. Mark Twain's innovative uses of scrapbooks was yet another way he was ahead of his time. Reception at 5, talk at 5:30. 351 Farmington Ave. Hartford, CT 06105; 860-247-0998 *Ellen Gruber Garvey* is the author of/ Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance/ (Oxford UP, 2013) and /The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture/, winner of the SHARP prize for the best book of 1996 on the history of the book. She has written extensively on women editing periodicals, the advertising of books, and on print culture, in venues that include /American Quarterly/, /The New York Times/ "Disunion" blog, /The Root/, and /Slate./ She is Professor in the English Department of New Jersey City University, where she also teaches Women's and Gender Studies, and co-edits the journal /Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy./ -- Ellen Gruber Garvey, Ph.D. Professor, Department of English, New Jersey City University Author, /Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance <http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/?view=usa&ci=9780199927692>/ Visit the Scrapbook History website <http://scrapbookhistory.wordpress.com/>