Stories by samclemens

A commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut (1994)

The Surveilled Student

Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty (2015)

What Our Biggest Best-Sellers Tell Us About a Nation’s Soul

A Brief History of the Amphicar – President Lyndon Johnson’s Favorite Car (2020)

Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)

Faulkner vs. Wellman: The Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1946 Showdown (2012)

Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960

Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’ (2019)

Len Deighton and the Mundanity of Spies

Kentucky Meat Shower

The Heart of the Matter: George Orwell and Fatherhood (2020)

Going into the City

A Somewhat Comprehensive History of U.S. Senators Who Have Died in Duels

A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021

The Lives of Napoleon

What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal

The Opportunists

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