Stories by samclemens

Letter-Writing Manuals Were the Self-Help Books of the 18th Century

Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States

It needs more public-spirited pigs: TS Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm

The Mall Lives

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

Title Fights: Who gets to name an author’s book?

Esperanto: the language that never was

When High Technology Meets Immortality: Don DeLillo's 'Zero K'

A Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch

The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia

Language Shrapnel

Letter from West Virginia

Charles Dickens and the Linguistic Art of the Minor Character

“Indiscretions” by Virginia Woolf (1924)

Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable

Roosevelt's Nature

My New York Misadventure (1932)

Why James Baldwin Still Matters

A Writer's Justification

Found: Walt Whitman’s Guide to ‘Manly Health’

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