Stories by samclemens

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

Cripes, a bumbershoot

God Save Austin

The Man Who Wanted Everything

W.G. Sebald and the Malthusian Tragic

Technological Change and Obsolete Skills: Evidence from Men’s Pro Tennis (2017) [pdf]

Sorry No Gas: Photos from Documerica, 1972 – 1975

The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex

Getting a fair price: a handy pocket-book for merchants (and smugglers?)

Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs

Jimmy Is Everywhere: On James Baldwin's FBI File

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

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