Stories by samclemens

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs

Gordon Lish, the Art of Editing No. 2 (2015)

The Power Historian: What Was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital Center”?

Kingpins Who Conspired to Save California Wine (2015)

Put Your Husband in the Kitchen by Hellen Keller (1932)

What time capsules for the future say about how we see ourselves today

Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked a Brewing Dynasty

Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly

My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request

Slouching Towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on Life in America's South

Waugh on the Merits

Ernest Hemingway's Long-Lost Los Angeles Visit

“Ancient Aliens”: The History Channel’s Assault on Truth

How to Kill a Possum

Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom Interview with Simeon Wade

The True American: On Henry David Thoreau

Camera Obscura: A biography of street photographer Vivian Maier

The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet

Two Paths for the Personal Essay

United States Camel Corps

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