Stories by samclemens

The Battle Over U.S. Military History

Immortality Begins at Forty

How George Plimpton’s Sports Books Presaged the First-Person Media Age

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas

On 200th birthday of Charlotte Brontë, books from an unconventional childhood

A Paper Internet of 1932

Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy (2011)

Jason Hall on Wilkie Collins’s Best Books

A cultural history looks at how word processing changed the way we write

Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors

Farm to Fable

Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker

The Great Radium Scandal (1993) [pdf]

For Kafka, Even Beer Came with Baggage

Victorian-Era Magical Societies, Telepathy, and Interplanetary Space Travel

Some Strategies of Bot Poetics

Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?

Desk Set: How Blanche Knopf Helped Make Knopf

The Man Who Jumped Out the Window (2015)

How Shakespeare Lives Now

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