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  • Getting to Know Olivia Langdon Clemens March 25, 2024
    by Barbara Snedecor The following is a guest blog post by Barbara Snedecor, editor of Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens. The book can be purchased here. Samuel Langhorne Clemens—Mark Twain—famously described the moment when he saw a small photograph of his future wife: “I saw her first in the form of an ivory…
  • Q&A with Jon Langmead January 18, 2024
    Jon Langmead is a writer covering music and popular culture for a variety of outlets. The University of Missouri Press has just released his book, Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling. The book offers a colorful, entertaining history of professional wrestling’s formative years in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to…
  • In honor of Olivia Langdon Clemens’ birthday November 27, 2023
    While Olivia Langdon Clemens is popularly known as the wife of Mark Twain, she deserves to be remembered on her own terms. Her many letters are perhaps the best way for us to understand her as a world-class thinker in her own right. Thus, in honor of her birthday, we’ve decided to share the preface…