Stories by samclemens

Beware of Book Blurbs

The Earthshaking History of San Francisco’s Quake Shacks

Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman

‘A Mystery of Mysteries’ Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door

The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902

The Mistress of Slang

The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)

The Golden Age of Glossies

A Stick Chart from the Marshall Islands (2016)

When Truman Capote’s lies caught up with him

Grandma Gatewood

Abraham Lincoln’s other legacy: An obsession with open caskets

A civil war over semicolons: Robert Caro and his editor

Getting lost in the world’s largest stack of menus

Britain’s empire of science

Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career

The father of all secrets: John le Carré’s daddy issues

A Fragmentary History of California

Mocha Dick

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