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Joel Chandler Harris: Gentle Master of Dialect
Painfully shy and most unprepossessing with his thin red hair and weak chin, at first glance it was almost impossible to imagine that Joel Chandler Harris was the creator of the immortal Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit stories. These are the finest examples of dialect writing in American letters, so accurate and keenly observed that the acerbic Mark Twain called Harris “a fine genius.”
Mark Twain Redux
A decade-later update to the classic articles on Mark Twain published in 1998 in Firsts. We look at the changes in the world of Twain collecting, including the advent of Internet bookselling, and review some of the most important new volumes of Twain scholarship.
A Special “Books into Film”: Gone with the Wind
Too much has been written about Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Civil War and David O. Selznick’s multiple Academy Award-winning film version. So we thought it was past time for us to add to the mix. But we found we could not fit it in to the usual format. The book is long, the motion picture is long, and so is this month’s column.