Mark Twain’s Biggest Writing Failure

If ever there was an American literary giant, Mark Twain was it. He was somehow larger than life — loved for both his stories and his outsized wit and personality. Yet did you know that one of the books Twain wrote was a flop? It’s true. His autobiography was a failure by most objective standards. […]

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Is Your Schooling Interfering with Your Education?

Yesterday (6/21) a reader compared my writing to Mark Twain’s. He wrote (via Twitter): “don’t know if it’s the topic of death that brings it outta you, but today’s & the Monk/coffin post are funny. I mean Twain funny.” Needless to say, I was quite flattered. Speaking of Twain, here’s one of his quotes that’s […]

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