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My Review Of The New Mark Twain Bio Got Me Into LitHub

SPOILER ALERT-- THIS EXPERIENCE DID NOT HUMBLE ME

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Karl Straub
May 29, 2025
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Howdy, photogenic stranger! You’ve reached HOT PLATE! Print Edition. I write about music, books, and cinema, and occasionally also sociology and politics (when I can’t manage to avoid them). Today, we’re talking about books.

I write book reviews for Washington Independent Review of Books, and I reviewed Ron Chernow’s new Mark Twain biography.

Usually I…

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