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Editorial| November 01 2017 Editor's Re: Marks The Mark Twain Annual (2017) 15 (1): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Editor's Re: Marks. The Mark Twain Annual 1 November 2017; 15 (1): v–viii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.v Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Mark Twain Annual Search Advanced Search It's in the air. Can you smell it? No, I'm not talking about the pungent odor of this past season's political machinations. What I am talking about is the lingering, sweet aroma of this past summer's Elmira 2017 Twain conference. For three days in early August, several hundred Twain scholars from around the world gathered for the Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies: “The Assault of Laughter.” Kudos to conference planners Joe Lemak, Kerry Driscoll, and Ann Ryan for another successful conference that featured more than fifty papers from a variety of scholars, three full days of fine food and fellowship, as well as the not-to-be-missed traditional closing picnic at Quarry Farm, replete with the ritual cigar-smoking ceremony and confab at the former study site. Cigar smoke from that night may still be lingering.Although “Elmira Unplugged,” as I like to call it, began in 1989,... You do not currently have access to this content.

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