Stories by samclemens

The Curse of Milk Sickness

List of Books Considered the Worst

I just let him have his beer

Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art

Why do publishers still issue hardbacks? (2018)

Cigarette Stories

The Unfinished Revolution: Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood

Jefferson's Doomed Educational Experiment

Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention

American Slavery and ‘The Relentless Unforeseen’

When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr

American Gothic: On America’s unease with the darkness in its past

The Legend of A-N-N-A

Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier

Lydia Davis Loved Learning the Word ‘Look.’ These Essays Show Why

Mulholland Gave LA Water and a Motto to Live By (2013)

An Uncommon Correspondent

The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America

The Center Does Not Hold: Jill Lepore’s Awkward Embrace of the Nation

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