Stories by samclemens

Unblinking Eye: The infinite rewards of immersion in Proust

Among the Lizard People: Silent Connections at the Reptile Expo

Is cursive handwriting making a comeback?

The Last Florida Indians Will Now Die: The Westward Plight of the Apalachee

The Art of Distillation

Abraham Wald and the Missing Bullet Holes

Flannery's Farm

The 19th century saw a soda fountain arms race

American Literature Needs Indie Presses

The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles

A Twitter adaption of “Ulysses” reveals the secret of Bloomsday

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

47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56