Word: twain
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...once tried to establish his own kingdom in Wisconsin, propagated the story that he was the Bourbon prince in exile, spirited to the Americas by French royalists after the Revolution. Williams' conceit-he went so far as to forge his own adoption papers-was later satirized by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...penetration.The time is March 2003, and the scene is a home sprawled on a hill above Hollywood. It’s a fictional return to the birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, best known for her 1991 novel “A Thousand Acres” and her Twain-bashing essay “Say It Ain’t So, Huck.” Despite the advantage of returning to known terrain, Smiley stumbles, and her attempt to translate Hollywood to the page is as artificial as her political protest. As the war in Iraq is just beginning...
...able to do this largely because his teddy-bear sensitivity defies every stereotype of his profession. Unlike Phil Spector, who allegedly motivated the Ramones by having them play at gunpoint, Rubin is neither crazy nor intimidating. Unlike Robert (Mutt) Lange, the obsessive genius behind AC/DC and Shania Twain, he has never ordered 80 consecutive vocal takes of a one-syllable lyric. "Those guys have made some of my favorite records," says Rubin. "But they had their method, and I have mine...
...Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot
Even after the cutting and streamlining, the book is deeply nuanced--a teen novel in the way that Mark Twain wrote teen novels. Or J.D. Salinger. In fact, the punk conceit of King Dork is that the main character rails against "the cult of Catcher in the Rye." The cover of King Dork is a faux red Catcher cover, with the title and Salinger's name erased and replaced by Portman's. "I always felt a lot of people might have been faking the adulation of it, to impress their parents or their teachers," says Portman. Plus, he knew that...