Stories by samclemens

The naked and the read

What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?

Willa Cather, Pioneer

Wil Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

Zadie Smith’s Varieties of Individuality

Poetry of Puritanism

Roth Agonistes

What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (2012)

Mark Twain’s adventures in love

The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Gellhorn

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016)

A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler

“Prince George Washington” at the Siamese Court (2016)

Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things

The Encyclopedia of the Missing

The Impossibility of Knowing Mark Twain

Regarding the Em Dash

William James Makes a Lesson Plan for Himself

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