Cinnalounge is a special treat that the Cinnabar Theater puts on once during each of their shows for their $500+ members.  It is a VIP event that includes a distinguished speaker along with food and libations. Yesterday, April 11th, 2010, at Pelican Art Gallery, we hosted Shelley Fisher Fishkin, professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University and the author or editor of 34 books on Mark Twain, including Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices, The 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Book of Animals (article about Twain’s animal welfare concerns) and The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work. She is the scholar who recovered Mark Twain’s forgotten play “Is He Dead?” in the archives, published it, and guided it to a critically acclaimed first-ever run on Broadway in 2007– 08. She is a past president of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America.always an interesting.

It was incredibly interesting and very timely as much of her presentation was about art.

Here is a photo of the event:

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