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NEWS ABOUT: Mark Twain

Mark Twain stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Banning a book is a move laden with ironies that can make the banner seem dull-witted in the long run. For National Banned Books Week, 11Points.com lists "the most hypocritical, ignorant, and, based on the content of the books, ironic" bans:
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury: 
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Harry Potter • JK Rowling • literature • Salman Rushdie • publishing • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Mark Twain • banned • books • Fahrenheit 451 • Ray Bradbury • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The Satanic Verses • banned books • National Banned Books Week

travel

 Where to Find Real America 


Aug 22, 09 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Travel writer Gary McKechnie helps USA Today round up some of the best places to get a taste of old-fashioned Americana:
  • Little League World Series, Williamsport, Pa.: The end-of-August tradition is free.
  • Mark Twain America, Hannibal, Mo.: Be like Tom Sawyer and go on a guided cave tour.
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Indianapolis 500 • hot air balloon • Little League World Series • Grand Ole Opry • Punxsutawney Phil • Mark Twain • Soap Box Derby • Miss America Pageant • Rock City

OPINION

A Christmas Story Raconteur Spoke to Misfit Generation

Jean Shepherd made growing pains a little easier in the '50s and '60s" musician Fagen

Dec 26, 08 4:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Listening to Jean Shepherd, the radio raconteur whose writings inspired A Christmas Story (and who did the voice-over), “I learned about social observation and human types,” musician Donald Fagen writes for Slate. For “the true horror of helpless childhood,” and a realism that countered the feel-good,... More »

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radio • Mark Twain • A Christmas Story • Jean Shepherd • Lenny Bruce • Donald Fagen • Steely Dan

Equation Helps Procrastinators Overcome Their Stall Tactics

You know, when you get around to it

Dec 8, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The legions of those of us who "will do it later" are growing, reports the Sunday Times, but now there's a formula to figure out what chance you have of beating back your delay tactics. A Calgary University business professor claims in a new book, The Procrastination Equation,... More »

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U2 • Guns N' Roses • colleges and universities • Mark Twain • students • procrastination • Piers Steel • Calgary University • The Procrastination Equation

OPINION

 There's Wild Food Missing Here

American cuisine should include wild game

Nov 26, 08 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark Twain’s Thanksgiving looked nothing like the meal you’re having tomorrow—or, for that matter, like the one the Pilgrims had with the Wampanoag. The difference? Those bygone American tables would have been filled with wild game, Andrew Beahrs writes in the New York Times. Twain wrote... More »

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food • wildlife • eating • Thanksgiving • Mark Twain

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