Stories by samclemens

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

Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution

The Los Angeles Breakfast Club Nearly Disappeared

A Priceless Archive of Ordinary Life

The Haunted Past

Joan Didion’s Life in Objects

Interview with Andrew Wylie, the world’s leading literary agent

The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’

Pig War (1859)

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