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Matt Seybold
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Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ “Not your Pap-pap’s Twain scholar.” “The Guy Fieri of English professors.”
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This is my favorite piece of Twain ephemera, published in the theatrical newsletter that would become San Francisco’s paper of record. Why did the Chronicle offer such “advice” to their freelancer? Why was the SFPD “a laying for” Mark Twain? This is not the Twain anecdote your papaw tells ya. 1/

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Twain all but said ACAB. Is he the REAL leader of Antifa?!

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I don't get it, was it a badly veiled threat or honnest warning?

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/

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Matt Seybold
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ “Not your Pap-pap’s Twain scholar.” “The Guy Fieri of English professors.”
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