Dawidziak’s book on the other Mark will be unveiled June 4

“Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness,” collected and edited by former BJ TV/movie critic and longtime Cuyahoga Falls resident Mark Dawidziak, will be unveiled at the Beachwood branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 4.

Dawidziak and his wife, Sara Showman, co-founders of the Largely Literary Theater Company, also will be premiering a one-act show based on material in the book. The book, published this month by Prospect Park Books, collects the writer's often politically incorrect and always unapologetically honest advice on everything from drinking to swearing.

“Nobody gets Mark Twain the way Mark Dawidziak does,” documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says of “Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness.”  “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.”

The book launch event in Beachwood will include the performance, a question-and-answer period and book signing. Dawidziak, the television critic at Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, also will be signing “Mark Twain in Ohio,” published in April by Rod Serling Books. It details Twain's many connections to the Buckeye State and his visits to, among other cities, Akron, Cleveland, Ravenna, Wooster and Columbus.

The library is at 25501 Shaker Boulevard in Beachwood. To register for the free event, go to www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Events.aspx . For information, call 216-831-6868.

The national book launch for “Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise,” etc. will be at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Among the places Dawidziak and Showman  have been asked to perform Twain shows this summer at the Thurber House in Columbus, the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and the Center for Mark Twain Studies in Elmira, New York.