Sullivan's essay is the best thing to come out of the Chernow biography's reception, at least so far, & Harper's was nice enough to offer me some space to say so.

The eight months of baited breath ends tomorrow. Dan Sinykin (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) responds to Brandon Taylor (and my) critique of "The Spreadsheet Men."

I never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

AI does indeed get a lot wrong.

"The business prosperity of the world is only a bubble of credit & speculation, one scheme helping to float another which is no better than it, & the whole liable to come to naught as soon as the busy brain that conceived them ceases its power to devise, or some accident produces a sudden panic."

Every year the Center For Mark Twain Studies funds at least a dozen Quarry Farm Fellows - including a creative writer, visual artist, & three (or more) emerging scholars - to spend 2-4 weeks in residence at the place which Twain found uniquely conducive to writing. Excited for this year's class!

Mark Twain. Born yesterday.

A good day to start skeeting with this excerpt from Robert Paul Lamb's forthcoming book, supplemented by documents from Bancroft and Houghton libraries.