Never the Twain

[Carvill, John]

>sufferes from some surreal experiements 

Hmmmm does it really 'suffer' from them?

>and his still paternailistic
>and latent racist views

Arguable, surely?

> and his misreading of Twain

This I *love* - once again Pynchon could have learnt a lot from T'Alice eh?

I guess everybody knows, that Twain's autobiography is about to come out. The current Granta has an exclusive extract, and you can see some hand-written pages here:

http://www.granta.com/Twain-manuscript

Also available at Granta online, and only related to P via his interest in genocide, you can read Janine Di Giovanni's great piece on returning to Bosnia:

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/111/The-Book-of-the-Dead/1