Stories by samclemens

Why Did American Cats Get Blamed for So Many Divorces?

Don't Mess with Roy Cohn (1978)

I Will Get Hung, but I Don't Care as Long as I Get Breakfast

The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

Literature in Castro’s Cuba

At the Start of the Civil War, Few Union Surgeons Had Treated a Gunshot Wound

The Folsom Prisoner Who Built Functional Miniature Carnivals Out of Toothpicks

Farewell to Pnin: The End of the Comp Lit Era

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of the New Yorker

Elie Wiesel, the Art of Fiction No. 79 (1984)

Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets to Be Journalism?

A brief history of air-conditioning (2006)

True Fakes on Location: World-Building, Hollywood-Style

In Parenthesis: in praise of the Somme's forgotten poet

The Mysterious Origins of the Sausage

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick

The Ghost (Writer) in the Machine

(W)here Lies Constance Wilde?

“Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held

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