Stories by samclemens

John Updike Wrote It All Down

A Tale of Two College Towns

Three Hapsburgs and a Reporter Walk into a Canadian Vault

Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media?

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road

Did Charles I Have to Die?

Ad-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science

How sober should a writer be?

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library

Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia

John Ashbery's Analyst

Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders?

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please

"Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific

Fitzgerald's Follies

'The Devil Wears Rothko' Review: Victimhood and Vanity

When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink in Outer Space

A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham

The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club

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