Stories by samclemens

From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter

A surprising dearth of spectacled bears

How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee

At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter

How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long, Local History

The Tyranny of the Tale

The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)

Old Weird America: The Dark Comedies of Charles Portis

Burying Indiana Jones

Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy

‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ Review: A Young Nation, Suddenly Tested

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Did This Writer Know Tennessee Williams?

Chronicler of the Flower Moon

A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019)

Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away

English in the Real World

Can a novel capture the power of money?

The Birth of Brainstorming

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