Stories by samclemens

Maya Angelou’s cookbooks are a rich part of her literary legacy

The Last Days of Rookie

Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing

How a Successful Biographer Became a Forger (2008)

The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley’s Flying Saucer Man

Uncivil Civility: A literary fight club (1858)

Oscar Wilde’s Radical Wit

All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art

The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s Moral Crusade

What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?

Telegraph operators were first to know news of the Civil War

Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

The Greatest Use of Life: On William James

The Screenwriting Mystic Who Wanted to Be the American Führer

Why the novel matters in the age of anger

What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort

How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

The Village Voice (1955-2018)

A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

Alex Garland’s cult novel The Beach, 20 years on

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