The American Vandal
Episodes
Muskism with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the forthcoming book "Muskism: A Guild For The Perplexed" with its authors. Topics includes Muskism as the antidote to Musk Fatique, m...
The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Opens with Matt Seybold's short history of Instructure, the makers of Canvas LMS, with special emphasis on its acquisition by Dragoneer and KKR in 202...
Close Reading Is Not A Luxury (Vandal Live at Emory)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium, hosted by Emory University. What are the challenges, strategies, and rewards for teaching close...
Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live at Emory University)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium, hosted by Emory University. Why is close reading best understood as a conversation? What are it...
Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first of three episodes based on the "Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium" hosted by Emory University. The symposium's opening address is...
Theory At The Bargaining Table with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh (Vandal Live at UIC)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago United Faculty, a roundtable discussion about confronting the challenges facing higher education labor or...
Everyday Ecofascism with April Anson & Alexander Menrisky (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The event launching the 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium on Energy Studies begins with opening address by co-organizer Jeffrey Insko, then discussion of the...
Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A spirited discussion of the state of higher education, the history of criticism, and the future of literary knowledge production, recorded with a liv...
Inside Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A chance to reflect, with journalism professor Jeff Sharlet, on his book, "The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War," the looming threat of accelera...
Cruel Futurism
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The finale of "A Tale of Today," the eleventh season of "The American Vandal." Matt Seybold offers his journey of curiosity from the end of "Criti...
"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remastered audio of Fredric Jameson's second lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by ...
The Jameson Tapes, Side B
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second episode contextualizing Fredric Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society begins with a discussion of Jameson's controv...
"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by ...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first of two installments contextualizing Fredric Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society begins with a discussion of "Marxi...
Spitesgiving in Flyover Country
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Analysis of the Gilded Age tropology of alienation precedes discussions of Hubert Humphrey & Tim Walz [9:00], the reception of "Hillbilly Elegy" and i...
Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A so-called Spreadsheet Man responds. Does the institutional turn have a distinctly feminine ethos? [27:30] How is it rooted in the Post45 Collective?...
The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our ideology critique of contemporary tech fascist SciFi begins with the first selections from Fredric Jameson's 1977 seminar at the Institute On Cult...
Vandal Live: Affordances of Enclosure & The Ends of Empires
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our inaugural installment of "live" podcasting was recorded with a small audience in the library at Quarry Farm. It features Caroline Levine and Jed E...
Solidarity & Speculation
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The finale of our trilogy centered on Technofeudalism begins with the intersection of political economy with aesthetics and literary forms, followed b...
From Technostructure To Technofeudalism
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of the political economy of technofeudalism begins by defining the technostructure and introducing its personification, followed by tes...
Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode opens with journalism's "race to the bottom," described by a journalist who lived it, followed by what "The Facebook Files" revealed about soc...
The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A two-part meditation on the history of journalism and the fate of investigative journalism under tech fascism begins with the model of Ida Tarbell, t...
The Gilded Network
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our 150th anniversary celebration of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" turns to political economies of mass med...
A Journey of Curiosity
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second act of "A Tale of Today," focused on HBCUs and the political economy of education in Gilded Ages old and new, concludes with a journey of c...
The First Curriculum Is Work Without Wages
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following Jelani Favors's description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howar...
Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Archives, physical and digital, are suffering from austerity, enshittification, and censorship. In this episode scholars discuss the ambivalent impact...
Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"A Tale Of Today" returns with an episode inspired by "The Teaching Archive." Its authors discuss the pedagogical innovations of HBCUs and strategies ...
The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An episode built around an interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom covers what lessons the rest of Higher Ed can learn from HBCUs [3:00], the vectors o...
Philanthrocapitalism U
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Morehouse college commencement speaker makes an extraordinary financial commitment, but there's a "profound story" to tell about the durable funding...
The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A brief history of HBCUs through conversations with five scholars about the second curriculum which informs movements for Civil Rights in the midcentu...
BONUS EPISODE: "First at Farce: Structures of Feeling in The Gilded Age" by Nathan Wolff (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium Keynote)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Nathan Wolff himself puts it, his recent keynote address at the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium is "very much in dialogue with The American Vandal....
The Historical Novel
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Organized around a comparison of György Lukács's "The Historical Novel" and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner's "The Gilded Age," in this episode w...
Always Historicize?
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Fredric Jameson on why "the most important goal is history itself" follows a series of conversations about dialectical criticism vs. new historic...
Strategic Presentism & Resistance History
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of "The Gilded Age" [6:30] before...
Fredric Jameson R.I.P
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this Summer, Matt Seybold asked Anna Kornbluh what Fredric Jameson meant to literary criticism. On the occasion of his passing, we'd like to s...
Cruel Optimism & The Enclosure of the Commons
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new episode of "A Tale of Today" begins with an explanation of the forest charter and the enclosure of the commons through a revisionist version of ...
The Age of Insecurity
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new season inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's 150-year-old novel, "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," launches with an introduction t...
Criticism LTD: Continuing The Dialogue (A Project Narrative Event)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at The Ohio State University, as part of the Project Narrative series, Matt Seybold reflects on the making of "Criticism LTD" [3:15], as well...
Close Reading Feudalism(s) in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover Episode)
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the production studios of Ohio State University, American Vandal host, Matt Seybold, and James Phelan, the Director of Project Narrative, read al...
2024 with Anna Kornbluh & J.D. Connor
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The finale episode of our miniseries on corporate allegory was recorded the day after the publication of Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of T...
iLiberalism, The Morning Show, & The Sheeny Blandness of AppleTV+ with Anna Shechtman & Michael Szalay
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our series on corporate allegory continues with an extended discussion of Apple TV+, both its film and television offerings, as well as the relationsh...
Close Reading, Conglomerate Authorship, & Qween Danielle Steel with Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an episode which operates as both coda to "Criticism LTD" and herald of 2024, Matt Seybold is joined by two scholars working on the complex history...
Netflix Necrocapitalism & The House of Usher with Jane Hu & Phillip Maciak
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new season on corporate allegory, business melodrama, and new releases from academic presses kicks off with a discussion of the recent Mike Flanagan...
The Empire of Criticism (Finale)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Criticism LTD" concludes its lengthy examination of the unanswerable questions about the state of literary studies with a lengthy consideration of "T...
The Empire of Criticism (Part Two)
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of the finale of "Criticism LTD," we hear about the origins of Jacque Derrida's "Limited Inc." from its editor, the fraught allianc...
The Empire of Criticism (Part One)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The tripartite finale of "Criticism LTD" begins with a the feud between Matthew Arnold and Mark Twain, followed by "Bed Glee" [14:00], "Outing Critici...
Ed Tech, AI, & The Unbundling of Research & Teaching
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sometimes uncanny Halloween week exploration of the EdTech griftopia. Who's monetizing our data? How is EdTech being used to bust unions [8:00]? How...
Podcasting Criticism
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An appropriately rangy discussion of the podcast medium and its debts to existing print and audio forms. The origin story of The American Vandal Podca...
Criticism in The Conglomerate Era
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As mass-market literature has been consolidated into a small handful of publishing conglomerates, the critical work once done by publicity and editori...
BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & The Audible Creation Exchange
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is literary knowledge? And, for that matter, what is literature? A survey of new literary media takes on audiobooks [5:00], BookTube and BookTok ...
Brittle Paper & The Blogossance
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between literary criticism and media studies? How has criticism adapted to the digital revolution? These questions are consid...
Politics & The Paracademy
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An attempt to triangulate politicization, professionalization, and publication by examining several periods in the history of criticism. The episode b...
The Chicago Fight & Economics Imperialism
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Chicago Critics won the Chicago Fight of the 1930s, but they lost the Chicago Cold War. Chicago Economics got its start dismantling the Chicago Pl...
The Chicago Fight & "Criticism Inc."
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom's 1937 essay, "Criticism Inc.," as well as their working conditions at the Univers...
The Racist Interpretation Complex
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method...
Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, West Virginia University announced that it would abolish its World Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics Department, proposing to replace i...
Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture ind...
Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast connects in...
The Golden Age of The Working Critic
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The premiere of a new series, "Criticism LTD," on the contemporary state of criticism. This episode covers proclamations of crisis from legacy media e...
Criticism LTD. Trailer
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A first look at the eighth season of The American Vandal Podcast, an assessment of the contemporary state of literary criticism and literary studies t...
Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special)
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of the largest annual gathering of literary scholars, the MLA convention in San Francisco, a discussion of this year's presidential theme, ...
The Twitter Elegies (& Mastodon Scolds) with Rebecca Colesworthy & Jeff Jarvis
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two scholars embedded in publishing discuss the impact of chaos at Twitter and in social media more generally upon journalism and academic presses. Al...
Reckless Monetization, Surveillance Kleptocracy, & Olivia Snow's Villain Origin Story
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the Elon Musk era at Twitter descends ever further into chaos, we discuss the canaries in the coal mine of surveillance, shadowbanning, algorithmic...
The Plausible End of Social Media, Downscaling, & The Latent Celebrity Mindset with Ian Bogost
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, The Atlantic published an essay by our guest, Ian Bogost, titled "The Age of Social Media is Ending." Since then there have been l...
The Collapse of Twitter, Zombie Cyberlibertarianism, & Commercial Content Moderation with Sarah T. Roberts
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the end of Twitter seemingly imminent, content moderation and social media expert, Sarah T. Roberts, discusses Elon Musk's ideology, the labor of...
Dance of the Cash Dragons with Aaron Bady, Michelle Chihara, & Sarah Mesle
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The series finale finds "Dear Television" correspondents joining the podcast to discuss the Fall 2022 franchise season, foremost HBO's "House of the D...
Industry Cringe & Reproductive Horror with Johanna Isaacson & Madeline Lane-McKinley
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A ranging conversation inspired by two forthcoming books about genre, work, and visual culture. The authors consider HBO series like "The Baby," "Barr...
Rooting For Everybody Black in the Issa Rae Extended Universe with Jalylah Burrell & Danielle Fuentes Morgan
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by HBO shows "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," as well as Yvonne Orji's new stand-up special and recent Emmy wins for Quinta Brunson's "Abbott Eleme...
The Sopranos Revival (Remember The End of The End of History?) with Peter Coviello & Xine Yao
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No single program transformed the HBO brand like "The Sopranos," which became a hit all over again upon the launch of HBOMax in the midst of the 2020 ...
The Rehearsal, Reality TV, & Warner Bros Discovery with J. D. Connor & Olivia Stowell
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal" a critique of Reality TV? Moreover, might it be read as an attack on HBO's new parent company, Warner Bros Discove...
Puzzles of Collective Intention, Corporate Authorship, Family Business Insurrection, & HBO's Succession with Lisa Siraganian & Michael Szalay
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our sixth season - "HBO, From Pulp to Prestige" - kicks off with a discussion of conglomeration, collective intention, and corporate authorship throug...
Reconsidering Mark Twain Among The Indians with Herman Fillmore & Drew Lopenzina
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the concluding episode of our series on Kerry Driscoll's field-shaping book, Mika Turim-Nygren seeks reception of the work in Native Studies and fr...
Talking Mark Twain Among The Indians with Kerry Driscoll
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This seminal book in Twain Studies was a decades-long undertaking. Kerry Driscoll explains how she became "an accidental Twain scholar," and discusses...
Reviewing Mark Twain Among The Indians with John Bird, Susan K. Harris, & Ann Ryan
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new series hosted by Mika Turim-Nygren premieres with a discussion of Kerry Driscoll's 2019 book, "Mark Twain Among The Indians & Other Indigenous P...
Ministry For The Future (Worldwide Climate Teach-In Special Episode) with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Anna Kornbluh, & Min Hyoung Song
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Produced in observance of and solidarity with the Worldwide Teach-In On Climate & Justice taking place on many campuses today, including Elmira Colleg...
Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is is possible to imagine a world without work? Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social ...
Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Anderson's acclaimed new movie, The French Dispatch, draws inspiration from the Golden Age of The New Yorker magazine, a period from roughly the e...
Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we explain the Great Resignation? Or, for that matter, other mysteries of the contemporary economy, like the high price of culture work and the...
Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about the personal essay boom, iterations of the memoir in other literary genres, the constructive use of social media, the style of "t...
Are We All Porn Workers Now?: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A ranging conversation with two scholars - Heather Berg (Porn Work: Sex, Labor, & Late Capitalism) and Michelle Chihara ("Radical Flexibility: Driving...
A Hedge Fund with A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The World's Work" begins with a discussion of student debt, faculty deskilling, outsourcing, adjunctification, EdTech, and the financialization of U....
Showtime's Billions & COVID Form with Anna Kornbluh & Devin William Daniels
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The season finale of Billions aired exactly 17 months after the season premiere. This was not by design. In this episode, scholars of finance and popu...
Antiracism In The Contemporary University with Amanda Bailey, Tita Chico, & Emily Yoon Perez
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the Antiracism project sponsored by University of Maryland's Center For Literary & Comparative Studies with three faculty members heav...
The Shush (& The Chair) with Michelle Chihara & Kyla Wazana Tompkins
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her recent PMLA essay, "The Shush," Kyla Wazana Tompkins writes, "The future of the English department cannot be the same as its past." The recent ...
A Chair On The Chair with Karen Tongson
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new Netflix original series, The Chair, focus on the first woman of color to Chair the English Department at fictional Pembroke University. Dr. Ka...
The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On a special Emancipation Week episode, three scholars with both personal and professional ties to the Southern Tier of New York, discuss the recently...
Why Trust In Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a series of recent events indicating bipartisan interest in antitrust reform from Congress and the Supreme Court, host Matt Seybold speaks with L...
Generation Z, Mark Twain's Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas to Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The coordinators of the 2021 Summer Teachers Institute sponsored by the Center For Mark Twain Studies converse about the upcoming event, the state of ...
Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The co-editors of a new collection on "Race, Resistance, & Reality in The Classroom" discuss the "flash point" of 2008 for American education, the rec...
Mark Twain, Journalism, & the Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The authors of Genus Americanus (2020) join host Matt Seybold to discuss their 2011 road trip. Inspired by Mark Twain, they went looking for American ...
Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The recent HBO documentary series, directed by Raoul Peck, offers a grand narrative of European colonialism and American imperialism which is broadly ...
BONUS EPISODE: Readings for Hal Bush & Hiroko Bush
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A beloved member of the Mark Twain Studies community, author, and St. Louis University Professor, Hal Bush, recently suffered a traumatic brain injury...
The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War & Trade with Laleh Khalili
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following on the heels of the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal last month, Matt Seybold speaks with Dr. Laleh Khalili, whose 2020 book, S...
A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain's Emo Playlist with Erin Bartram & Kerry Driscoll
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings together three scholars who have been researching and writing about Mark Twain's musical tastes and the role of music education an...
Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot's Love Letters To Emily Hale with Frances Dickey, Megan Quigley, & John Whittier-Ferguson
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Very few embargoed archives are as momentous as Mark Twain's Autobiography, released a century after his death, but the Hale archive, opened last year...
Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian) with Emmet Asher-Perrin & Nathaniel Williams
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The hit Disney+ & Lucasfilm TV series, The Mandalorian, was produced under the working title of "Project Huckleberry." This allusion the Mark Twain's ...
Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance with Anna Kornbluh, Leigh Claire La Berge, & Michelle Chihara
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three scholars of finance and literature join to talk about the ongoing story of the "Reddit Revolution," members of the r/WallStreetBets forum who or...
The Myths of Reconstruction in The Wake of Insurrection with Brook Thomas
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6th, there has been a resurgent interest in the era of Reconstruction following the American...
BONUS EPISODE: Center for Mark Twain Studies 2020 Debrief From Quarry Farm with Joe Lemak & Steve Webb
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The staff of the Center for Mark Twain Studies gathers in the library at Quarry Farm to discuss the recently-announced Quarry Farm Fellowships for the...
BONUS EPISODE: The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira with Hal Holbrook & Will Holbrook
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that Mark Twain’s father-in-law lobbied for the release of a young woman arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law in 1853? That Twain’s ...