From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and reasoning that serve us well most […]
Brian "Box" Brown unravels how marketing that targeted children in the 1980s has shaped adults in the present. The He-Man Effect shows how corporate manipulation brought muscular, accessory-stuffed action figures to dizzying heights in the eighties and beyond. Bringing beloved brands like He-Man, Transformers, My Little Pony, and even Mickey Mouse himself into the spotlight, […]
Laura Sims brings us How Can I Help You—a razor-sharp suspense novel about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. Considered "a book lover’s dream…that culminates in a shocking climax" by Parade magazine, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession as […]
New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble will talk about her new historical novel. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass. Known […]
Clemens Conversations: Mark Twain, Cosmic Traveler Wednesday, July 26 at 12 PM (Noon) ET From a young age, Mark Twain was a travelling man. Whether it was travelling in a steamboat up the Mississippi, crossing the American desert in a stagecoach, or one of his countless trips across the Atlantic; it’s hard to imagine […]
Sea Tea Improv returns! GET A CLUE Tours will be offered on special nights at The Mark Twain House & Museum, using the various rooms (secret passageway, conservatory, billiards room, and more) of the Twain house -- and some of the author's favorite literary characters -- as part of the game. Who killed that varmint Pap […]
Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it’s […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House proudly present AMERICAN WHITELASH with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery. American Whitelash shows how the forces of white power retaliated against Barack Obama’s historic victory—and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump. Interweaving deep historical analysis […]
Bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a fast-paced, emotional thriller where the lives of a young mother and a high-rolling consultant collide under devastating circumstances—culminating in a desperate manhunt that will change their futures forever. In-Person Event: $42 for non-members, $37 for MTH&M Members (please login to access your discount). REGISTER HERE. Admission includes a […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Jane Curley back to the Trouble Begins stage for her lecture: A Model Case of Oh Hellyes! The Clemens spend a happy summer at Onteora in 1890. During the summer of 1890, the Clemens family found themselves perched high on a mountaintop in the Catskills. Life there was […]
Sunday, August 20 at 1:00pm - THE RED DISK - A First Look at a New Operical Don’t miss an opportunity to experience a first look at a brand new “operical” (a fusion of opera and musical) based on a little-known Mark Twain short story! In 1902, Harper’s Magazine published Death Disk, a heartbreaking short story based on a true […]
Join us on August 23rd, 2023 as The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College's Dr. Joe Lemak and Dr. Matt Seybold to the Trouble Begins stage for a conversation with Betsy Maguire about all things Twain in Elmira, NY. When Samuel Clemens, more commonly known by […]