Mark Twain Lives (in Animation)

in Art, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | March 10th, 2011 Leave a Comment

Taking a page from the RSA playbook, the New York Public Library has uploaded to its YouTube Channel a series of illustrated talks. John Waters, Jay-Z, Werner Herzog – they’re all there. And so too is Mark Twain “reading” from his own work – work that was first published in 2009 within a volume called Who is Mark Twain?. Flash Rosenberg provides the art (see her work on Vimeo); John Lithgow does the voice….


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