‘Tis the season for American nostalgia and great storytelling – I can’t think of many authors who fit that bill better than Mark Twain. It so happens that we’re not the only ones that think so. His new autobiography is on the best-seller list…
Mark Twain death centennial sparks wave of nostalgia (By Bruce Olson – Reuters)
(Reuters Life!) – One hundred years after reports of his death were correct, not exaggerated, Mark Twain is a hot commodity again with an autobiography on the best-seller list and a new CD celebrating his legacy.
The best seller is the first of the three-volume “Autobiography of Mark Twain,” the iconoclastic author’s private thoughts dictated during his life with the stipulation they not be published until he was dead for 100 years. That anniversary is 2010 and the 500,000-word book is flying off shelves.
The CD, “Mark Twain: Words & Music,” is narrated by Garrison Keillor with Twain’s words spoken by Clint Eastwood. It also features songs by Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs and others and is produced by Grammy-winner Carl Jackson.
It will be played and performed in public for the first time on Nov 30 at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, the Mississippi river town where Twain grew up.
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, the young author took the pen name Mark Twain became one of America’s best known writers and humorists, celebrated for novels such as “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”…
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Emerging Authors On Camera
Hearing a novelist talk about their first book is a great way to get excited about reading it. Huff Post blogger and author Anis Shivani wants readers to “experience the book up-close, and get a personal, informal, intimate sense of the book, the writer, their work habits, and the marketplace and readership they’re hoping to address”…
This is certainly a sentiment we at Peroozal can get behind!
Virtual Book Tour: 3 Emerging Fiction Writers Introduce Their Work (Huff Post)
by Anis Shivani, anisshivani.com
As any emerging writer knows, while the road to publication is tough and the obstacles many, there is no emotion to compare with holding your book in your hand for the first time–after the galleys have been gone over with a fine-tooth comb, the tiniest details of the cover settled on, the many who helped in the making of the book thanked and acknowledged, and the anxious but sweet wait for the reception of the book has begun.
In what we hope will be a continuing series spotlighting promising fiction writers and poets ahead of the publication of their books, we asked three young fiction writers to record a short introduction to their book, followed by a brief reading–so you can be the first to experience the book up-close, and get a personal, informal, intimate sense of the book, the writer, their work habits, and the marketplace and readership they’re hoping to address:
Rebecca Rasmussen tells us about her debut novel, The Bird Sisters (Crown, April 12)…
Valerie Laken tells us about her first story collection, Separate Kingdoms (Harper Perennial, March 29)…
Alan Heathcock tells us about his debut story collection, Volt: Stories (Graywolf, March 1)…
Click here for the videos.