Stories by samclemens

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?

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road

Did Charles I Have to Die?

Ad-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science

How sober should a writer be?

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library

Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia

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