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Willa Cather on Mark Twain

By Emily St. John Mandel posted at 5:05 pm on July 5, 2010 0

An early example of the literary take-down. Willa Cather on Mark Twain: “He is not a reader nor a thinker nor a man who loves art of any kind.”

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Emily St. John Mandel is a staff writer for The Millions. She has published three novels, most recently The Lola Quartet, which was a #1 Indie Next pick. Her essays and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, and will appear in the forthcoming collections Goodbye To All That (Seal Press, 2013), Imaginary Oklahoma (This Land Press, 2013), and The Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is married and lives in Brooklyn. www.emilymandel.com

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