Roy Blount, Jr. pens TIME cover story about Mark Twain
In a cover feature for TIME magazine, Roy Blount, Jr. looks at Mark Twain not as an author, but as a social commentator akin to people like John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Keith Olbermann in the media today.
Blount explores Twain's views on the idea of America as a Christian nation, torture, racism, and foreign policy, to name a few, all expressed in witty and satirical prose. Blount goes on to discuss Twain's background growing up on the Mississippi River, the grand home he built in Hartford, CT, the financial difficulties he faced later in life, and his progression as a writer striving to be taken seriously in his work.
Posted July 16, 2008 2:40 PM