Stories by samclemens

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

The People's Forest: How the Menominee Are Facing Climate Change

Letters from a Young Poet: The Final Correspondence of Sylvia Plath

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

A fabulist who changed journalism (2016)

The Rise and Suspiciously Rapid Fall of Freedomland U.S.A. (2015)

Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a 'Wrecked' Novel (2010)

Unstoppable Upward

Who killed Edwin Drood?

When Boz Came to Town: Remembering Charles Dickens’s First Visit to New York

Why Exaggeration Jokes Work

How a Fictional Racist Plot Made the Headlines and Revealed an American Truth

The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come with Me’

The Case of Agatha Christie

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