Keli Dailey at Adi Magazine:
Coffee spilled across my bedsheets as I read the San Francisco Chronicle, my hometown paper, last June. An op-ed was denouncing the Trump administration for killing the Mark Twain Papers and Project’s federal grant. I dabbed at the mess and sipped the article’s outrage. Summed up: How dare this government defund the largest archive of perhaps our most-quoted American author? A motive wasn’t clear.
I tried to imagine what Mark Twain, dead more than a century, might have said to provoke the president. That question sent me back to a novel that once jolted my nervous system with its racial slurs and kicked off my year of researching Twain, arguing about him, even trying to out-Twain him with my jokes.
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