Just when you thought Mark Twain couldn’t get any cooler, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings digs up another gem that makes us fall in love with him all over again. In the summer of 2011, I chanced upon a lovely Italian edition of a little-known, playful short story young Mark Twain had written in 1865 at age …

If The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn didn’t put hair on your chest, perhaps this semi-nude pic of one of America’s great thinkers will. According to NPR: Open Culture dug up an old picture of Mark Twain, who clearly did not heed his own (possibly apocryphal) advice: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no …