Stories by samclemens

Gregor MacGregor, the Prince of Poyais (2018)

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, the Cartoon (2014)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

On Cat Pictures

Christopher Walken on Acting Like Christopher Walken

Democracity a planned community of the future (1939)

1918 flu pandemic’s impact on movie theaters

The Kept and the Killed: the history behind a hole-punched archive

Campbell Soup turned New Jersey into a tomato-growing state

Curse of the Colonel

Notes from the End of a Long Life

Sinclair Lewis saw Middle America as it was

‘Tractor Wars’ Review: American Power Pull

The Mosaicist: On Evan S. Connell

$30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions

The Coin Standard: On the Failed Dreams of William Hope Harvey

Odd Showers (1870)

George Orwell Outside the Whale

Frost at Midnight

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