Stories by samclemens

The George Plimpton Story

Why I wrote a damning review of my own debut novel

America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling

How Should an Advice Column Be?

Serious Literature: On Hua Hsu’s “A Floating Chinaman”

Bad Poems

Forever 23: The Rapid Rise and Sudden Disappearance of Velva Darling

Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)

Three Sheldons

Sibell, an enslaved African in Barbados relates her life story

On Not Reading

Divine Indigestion: The endlessly fabulized American self

Considering the correspondence between CEOs and shareholders as a literary genre

Paranoid Android: The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick

A new biography of Jacob Neusner, one of the most-published authors in history

The Death of Flair

The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think

Nabokov’s ‘great gay comic novel’

Fear of Rattlesnake Island

When Refrigeration Was Controversial

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