The 1996 annual conference of the American Literature Association will be held in San Diego, CA, May 30-June 2. The Mark Twain Circle will sponsor two sessions and one special event: Thursday, May 30, 8:00-10:30 p.m. (Evans Riverboat) Cruise sponsored by Mark Twain Circle; board Evans Riverboat between 8:00 and 8:30. Friday, May 31, 9:00-10:20 a.m. (Mission Room) "Reassessing Twain in 1996"; Chair: Pascal Covici, Jr. (Southern Methodist U) 1. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (U of Texas), "Writers' Responses to Mark Twain" 2. Victor A. Doyno (SUNY, Buffalo), "Re-assessments and Rediscoveries: A Roundtable on the Oxford Mark Twain 3. Ray Sapirstein (U of Texas), "A Cultural Historian Looks at Twain's Early Editions" Sunday, June 1, 9:00-10:20 a.m. (Evans I) "Mark Twain and the Art of Writing"; Chair: James D. Wilson (U of Southwestern Louisiana) 1. Jeffrey Steinbrink (Franklin and Marshall), "Building a Mark Twain Machine" 2. James S. Leonard (The Citadel), "Going in Circles: Images of Writing in A Tramp Abroad" 3. M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon C), "Twain and Popular Culture: The Example of Tom Sawyer Abroad" Jim Leonard