Stories by samclemens

Remembering David Berman Through His Lyrics and Poems

Emancipation and Beyond – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?

A Quest for the Holy Grail: On D. W. Pasulka’s “American Cosmic”

Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden

How Capitalism Changed American Literature

Iris the Insoluble

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)

Telautograph

A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore

Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson

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

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