Our latest edition -- the Humor Issue -- is now on the web and in mailboxes. We didn't make nearly as big a deal about it is we probably should have, but thanks to the folks at the Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library, the magazine includes two previously unpublished pieces by Mark Twain. That's right, Mark Twain! Both are excerpts from Twain's autobiography, which has appeared in edited forms over the years, but never in its entirety. A definitive edition of that work is scheduled to appear next year, on the centennial of the author's death.
In the meantime, Twain lovers who are hungry for even more new material should be on the lookout for Who Is Mark Twain?, which is due to hit bookstores in April. The collection, which was compiled and edited by the folks at the Mark Twain Project and carries an introduction by the Project's Bob Hirst, features material never before published.
While I'm on the subject, the next few weeks will be your last chance to see Mark Twain at Play, the excellent exhibit in the lobby of the newly refurbished Bancroft. The exhibit was supposed to end on March 31 but has been extended till April 18. If you miss it, don't worry. All the Twain materials you could ever hope to lay your hands on are safely stored in the Mark Twain Papers on the top floor of the library: notebooks, letters, manuscripts, canceled checks, you name it -- it's all available to generations of curious scholars who want to know who exactly Mark Twain was.
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