Stories by samclemens

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

George Saunders on Writing

Pictorial Maps of the United States

Salem Witchcraft Trial (1878)

Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue

Nineteenth-century NYC was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia

Baseball Cards: 1912 Boston Garters

University Presses Are Keeping American Literature Alive

Remembering David McCullough Off the Page, as a Champion of Preservation

Adventure Painters of the Southwest

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