Stories by samclemens

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

Where She Was From: The Collected Joan Didion

Novels and Novellas and Tomes, Oh My!

Simone Weil for Americans

The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

The Purging of Chinese from America

Lyndon Johnson’s Campaign by Helicopter (2016)

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

‘Things’ in Fiction Shape the Way We Read

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