Stories by samclemens

What Are Magazines Good For?

The Elevated Era (2018)

I, You, We, They: Bette Howland’s memoir of community and its opposite

Prince Hall, American Revolutionary

Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time

Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher

The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney

A Storyteller's Shoptalk (1981)

The Business of Books: The high-stakes world of pirate publishing

What Happened When Henry James and Oscar Wilde Met (2015)

When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020)

Man’s Best Friend Once Made Nice Wool Blankets, Too (2019)

Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?

Republic of Indian Stream

The Missing Malcolm X (2018)

Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist

The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reappraisal?

What Writers and Editors Do

Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)

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