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Will they consider again his Mark Twain Award?

"Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vo. 1" could be a sizzling seller but Garrison Keillor's review in Sunday's New York Times Book Evaluation wasn't just glowing, calling the four-pound, 736-page, $35 very first volume a "dreary meander of a memoir."

"The book turns out to be a fantastic fraud on the order of the Duke and the Dauphin..." wrote Keilor, an author, humorist and host of radio's long-working "A Prairie Home Companion".

"...there is treasured small frankness and freedom here and a lot of proof that Mark Twain, in the fingers of academics, can be just as tiresome as anybody else when he is below the burden of his own status.

"Right here is a strong argument for writers burning their papers..."

"It is the unhappy fate of an icon to be mummified alive, pickled by his individual popularity..."

But the public would seem to want the guide and publishers are laughing all the way to the financial institution. It is in its seventh week on the Times' greatest sellers list (this week at Number Two, correct powering the memoirs of George W. Bush

The Mark Twain Property and Museum in Hartford reviews that it has marketed far more than 630 copies considering that it was published final month, a big range for the hefty-price tag and bodily-hefty book at a tiny reward store. (It is at present out of stock and awaiting a new shipment of 150, which has been delayed because of blizzards in the Midwest.)

So what would Twain have imagined of Keillor's remarks? The people at the Mark Twain Residence and Museum pulled this tidbit from the previous boy that was truly in the autobiography: "It is the will of God that we should have critics, and missionaries, and congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden."
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