Stories by samclemens

The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway

George Washington, Other Slave Owners Used Newspapers to Hunt Escaped Slaves

‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer

It’s time to ban cars from Manhattan

Scavenger of Eternal Truths: Thomas Meaney on Norman Mailer in the 1960s

Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property

A Man Who Went to War with Canada

The Hyphen Affair

Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD (2010)

L.A.'S Wildest Cafeteria Served Utopian Fantasy with a Side of Enchiladas (2014)

Swing in Austin

Bloomberg’s American Mall game (2018)

The Price of Self-Delusion

Is the Political Novel Dead?

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

The Women of ‘LIFE’ Magazine

Barnum Effect

A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story

Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler

Paranoid and Madcap, the Manchurian Candidate Is Our Timeliest Novel

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