Stories by samclemens

The Enigma of Gertrude Stein

The Reckless Women Who Changed Journalism

The Starving Time in Jamestown

Malcolm Cowley helped build a golden age of American letters

Those Who Can, Teach History

The Godless Students of London University

Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period?

The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing

Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period?

After Every Clue

The Last Intellectual

The Rise and Fall and Rise of American Publishing

The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and Ghostwriter?

The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow

William Golding's Island of Savagery

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?

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