Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place.

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

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The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.