Nobody gets Mark Twain the way Mark Dawidziak does. Here is the master in all of his certainty, humor, and undertow. This book wonderfully underscores how contemporary Mark Twain is and always will be.

Ken Burns Award-winning documentary filmmaker May 13, 2015

Mark has got mighty dedicated to the restoration of Twain into our thinking and has pursued a trail of scholarship which led him to deeply research the man we so admire. We became friends early on when he covered theatre and television for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and have a mutual reverence and love for Mark Twain’s teeming, explosive mind. This is a collection of these explosions. I think you will enjoy them. I have enjoyed them for 60 years.

Hal Holbrook Actor May 13, 2015

Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

David Bianculli Television critic and guest host for NPR’s Fresh Air May 14, 2015

With this wink to his readers, Dawidziak sets up a humorous collection of Mark Twain’s advice, quotes, and maxims on various topics that provide the basis for twenty short chapters…This current book, with its eye-catching cover featuring an embossed cameo of Mark Twain by Albert Levering from 1905, will likely be another popular volume for both the collector and gift-giver.

— Twain Forum- Briefly Noted May 14, 2015