Stories by samclemens

On the Centennial of Iris Murdoch’s Birth, Remembering a 20th-Century Giant

The Poetry of Motels

George Washington’s Midwives

“The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of Capitalism

The Man with the Leaden Ear: Nelson Algren’s America

Turn the Leaves and Use Them Well

Remembering Tin House, a Literary Haven for ‘Brilliant Weirdos’

HG Wells’s Forgotten Fiction

In the Shadow of Big Brother

A good writer is hard to find

The Achievement of Vasily Grossman

The Hidden Harper Lee

The Truth About Pinocchio’s Nose

Loos, Lewdness, and Literature: Tales from the Boghouse

How Cults Made America

A Day in New York in 1932 (2016)

Tolkien's First Words

Anti-Writer: On 'The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien'

What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out

William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone

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