Stories by samclemens

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

Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream

The Case Against Reading Everything

With a Little Help from Their Friends, Agents, Librarians, and Fact-Checkers

Ernest Hemingway, the Art of Fiction No. 21 (1958)

Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows (2013)

‘Their Spirits Were Trapped in Those Masks’

The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace

The world is full of needless suffering. How should each of us respond? (2015)

When Gas Masks Were an Inescapable Part of Everyday Life

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Self-Righteous Devils: What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About America

Humane AI: Newsletter #3

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