{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e13","title":"A Burlesque Biography","publish_year":1871,"publish_source":"The Galaxy","rating":4,"author":"Mark Twain","code":"a-burlesque-biography","words":2134,"image":"ship.jpg","image_alt":"A large sailing ship on the waters. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky"],"blurb":"Augustus Twain seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. He was as full of fun as he could be, and used to take his old saber and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night, and stick it through people as they went by, to see them jump.","description":"The author resentfully capitulates to demands for an autobiography, writing of a lineage of ancestors who get arrested for forgery or thrown off of Columbus’s ship to America.","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"}]}