The Village Pariah Now Available at Mark Twain Museum
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The
Village Pariah, a biannual literary journal published by the Mark Twain
Boyhood Home and Museum, is now available at both Mark Twain Museum Gift Shop
locations. Mark Twain, his hometown of Hannibal, the Mississippi River,
the Midwest, and small town or rural life in America provide the inspiration
and theme for the journal. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Powers wrote the
introductory essay for this issue.
The Village Pariah can be purchases as a single issue
($12), PDF download ($5), or annual subscription ($20). The journal will
be published as Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter issues.
In addition to The
Village Pariah, many other new titles are available, including:
A Summer
of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey tells about love, art, and
scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Martin Johnson Heade.
Dangerous
Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years by Karen
Lystra recounts the family drama that took place during Twain's last decade.
Twain's
Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens by
Andrew Beahrs uses the palate of America's great humorist and satirist to
celebrate and explore native foodstuffs and even make the case for him as a
passionate locavore.
Mark Twain's
Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook
for the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain and edited by Lin Salamo, Victor
Fischer, and Michael B. Fraink of the Mark Twain Project contains sixty-nine
aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from
Mark Twain's private and published writings.
The Mark
Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work by
Shelley Fisher Fishken. In this unique collection scores of literary legatees
from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius,
among them: José Martí, Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H.
L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T.
S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn
Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley,
Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Min Jin Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others
(including actor Hal Holbrook, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, stand-up
comedians Dick Gregory and Will Rogers, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Barack Obama)
Mark
Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by
Michael Shelden. In Twain’s remarkable late-life surge in vitality, Sheldon
discerns the surprising origin of the author’s iconic image.
For more information, visit us online at
http://marktwainmuseum.org.
