![]() ![]() He deploys his cohorts’ letters and memoirs to good effect, as these young writers battled their own insecurities and ambitions and still supported each other. ![]() 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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