Read more Mark Twain stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/22586/mark-twain.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:01:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70261/most-hypocritical-book-bannings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBanning a book is a move laden with ironies that can make the banner seem dull-witted in the long run. For National Banned Books Week, 11Points.com lists "the most hypocritical, ignorant, and, based on the content of the books, ironic" bans: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury: The sci-fi classic is...http://www.newser.com/story/70261/most-hypocritical-book-bannings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Sep 2009 11:26:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67405/where-to-find-real-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTravel writer Gary McKechnie helps USA Today round up some of the best places to get a taste of old-fashioned Americana: Little League World Series, Williamsport, Pa.: The end-of-August tradition is free. Mark Twain America, Hannibal, Mo.: Be like Tom Sawyer and go on a guided cave tour. All-American Soap...http://www.newser.com/story/67405/where-to-find-real-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Aug 2009 8:32:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/46038/a-christmas-story-raconteur-spoke-to-misfit-generation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagListening to Jean Shepherd, the radio raconteur whose writings inspired A Christmas Story (and who did the voice-over), “I learned about social observation and human types,” musician Donald Fagen writes for Slate. For “the true horror of helpless childhood,” and a realism that countered the feel-good, Disney bunk pushed by...http://www.newser.com/story/46038/a-christmas-story-raconteur-spoke-to-misfit-generation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Dec 2008 16:20:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44669/equation-helps-procrastinators-overcome-their-stall-tactics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe legions of those of us who "will do it later" are growing, reports the Sunday Times, but now there's a formula to figure out what chance you have of beating back your delay tactics. A Calgary University business professor claims in a new book, The Procrastination Equation , that up...http://www.newser.com/story/44669/equation-helps-procrastinators-overcome-their-stall-tactics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Dec 2008 7:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43687/theres-wild-food-missing-here.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMark Twain’s Thanksgiving looked nothing like the meal you’re having tomorrow—or, for that matter, like the one the Pilgrims had with the Wampanoag. The difference? Those bygone American tables would have been filled with wild game, Andrew Beahrs writes in the New York Times . Twain wrote with relish of...http://www.newser.com/story/43687/theres-wild-food-missing-here.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Nov 2008 13:13:15 CST