![]() He stacks fifty pages of endnotes at the back of the book but such archival sweat doesn’t show in the prose. ![]() The magazine became a launching pad for a new type of American fiction, as the friends crafted raw, humorous stories of pioneering life that could give them a foothold on the craggy mountain of American literary culture back east.Īdeptly wrapping a wonderful story around these young writers, Tarnoff glides smoothly along, never dwelling too long and never claiming too much. In that time-honored Bay Area way, they started their own venture, a monthly magazine called the Overland. ![]() They formed an abiding friendship, getting together for tea or dinner and spending hours talking about literature. ![]() He got fired from one paper and then snagged a job at a new weekly, the Californian, which connected him to Harte, Stoddard, and Coolbirth. Twain wrote columns for San Francisco dailies and sent freelance reports back to Nevada papers. ![]()
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