New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution. A “taut suspense and tight plotting that marked the authors’ earliest Pendergast novels are very much in […]
Program takes place in person and will not be recorded. A coming-of-age novel, The Sea Elephants is about a young man chafing against India’s homophobic culture in the 1980s and 1990s who joins a traveling street theater troupe to outrun the dark secrets of his past. An ode to the redemptive joys of art, […]
No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre than August Wilson, who wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. Now a new authoritative biography has been written exploring the history of the playwright himself by author and theater critic Patti Hartigan. […]
A novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond. In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the story of that search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters, bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, riddles, and strangers that will lead to the truth. It is an uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a […]
Irish thriller writer Adrian McKinty comes to The Mark Twain House & Museum to discuss his latest Sean Duffy novel, The Detective Up Late, with WNPR’s Colin McEnroe. Born in Belfast in Northern Ireland during “The Troubles,” Adrian McKinty traveled to the United States as an illegal alien, finding work in bars, on building sites, […]
Esmeralda Santiago, the award-winning, best-selling author, will be joined by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, recently named as head of The Academy of American Poets, to discuss her new novel Las Madres: a powerful story of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five […]
This new cookbook transports the reader back in time to lavish banquet tables set with snow-white linen tablecloths, delicate china, and sparkling crystal glasses. Cuisine featuring rich soups, juicy roasts, and luscious desserts come to life through historic images and artistic photography. Gilded Age details and entertaining stories of celebrities from the era—the Vanderbilts, […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. Richly drawn and bracingly honest, it asks what happens […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Mikayla Ploof to the Trouble Begins stage for her lecture: Digging up the Past - Then & Now of the Historic Hotel Ampersand The presentation will follow the rise and fall of the Hotel Ampersand located on the shores of Saranac Lake. The Clemens family visited Saranac Lake […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum and Kenway’s Cause present the 8th Annual Bark Twain Bash, an evening of celebrating our four-legged friends! Proceeds to benefit Kenway’s Cause and the Mark Twain House & Museum. We will be presenting special awards to special friends of animals and even animals themselves! The event is […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. On September 29, 1913, the New York Times led with the headline that Rudolf Diesel – multi-millionaire inventor of the diesel engine and international superstar in the scientific community – had disappeared of a passenger ship crossing […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. The Mark Twain House & Museum is delighted to reunite bestselling and award-winning authors Stephen Graham Jones and S.A. Cosby in conversation discussing their new novels! 2021 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award-winner and horror master Stephen […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]