The keynote speaker for this year’s Annual Idaho Writers Rendezvous was Ron Powers, an acclaimed author and historian who has written extensively about Mark Twain. Besides assuring the audience that the iconic American author would have applauded the rise of today’s “literary proletariat” through indie publishing (yay!), Powers explained that Twain signaled the cultural breaking away of America from British and European literary tradition by writing about common people using vernacular—i.e. ... VIEW POST