BY KAREN BOSSICK

Mark Twain’s insightful writings about race and slavery in America will be under the microscope on Wednesday.

Forrest Robinson, who has written several books on Mark Twain, will apply some of Twain’s insights to our current condition during the free presentation at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20.

Robinson’s books include “In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain’s America,” “The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain,” “The Author-Cat: Clemons’ Life in Fiction,” “With Gabriel Brahm and Catherine Carltroem,” “The Jester and the Sages,” and “Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud and Marx.”

“The Jester and the Sages” uses a comparision with Freud to show America’s favorite humorist’s guilt over the fact that he lived in a slave culture as a child, all the time persuaded it was not wrong.

Twain both addresses and denies the moral burden of slavery in American culture, according to Robinson.