I can't seem to get enough of the old boy: The Economist  has just published a little piece of mine, "Mark Twain, Midwestern Cosmopolitan." Boston Review and The Dabbler have two other articles by me on the same subject. And sometime in the next year, Vol. 2 of his Autobiography will appear, containing even more unexpurgated material than Vol. 1. I can't wait. After all, it's the next best thing to having him among us again. And, as his friend William Dean Howells said, "There was never anybody like him. There never will be."