Stories by samclemens

The Tree Farm

Denis Johnson’s Perfect Short Story

A Long Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

Time Machine: H.L. Mencken's 1925 Review of 'The Great Gatsby'

Waugh's Gift: Great novelist, less-than-great human being

The Incompatible Food Triad

What's Wrong with Literary Studies?

A new history of the essay gets the genre all wrong

PG Wodehouse secures redemption as British Library acquires priceless archive

The 50th Anniversary of ATS-1

Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Epic Literary Feud

Power Poser: When big ideas go bad

“One Hundred Years Hence”: Victorians predicting future technological wonders

The Dividend Disconnect [pdf]

Thoreau Was Actually Funny

Let Down by the Lists

Going Diamond: on Amway

Understanding the Russian Revolution

Creepy Futures: Nicholas Carr’s History of the Future

The Big Little Man from Brooklyn (1968)

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