Stories by samclemens

On the Rise and Fall of an American Utopia

The lost hope of self-help

A Picture of Language: The Fading Art of Diagramming Sentences

The History of Malt Liquor

Hundreds of Life Stories Found in Coroner's Reports from the 19th-Century South

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking (2015)

Proposals Toward the End of Writing

Who Was Kafka?

Alain de Botton on why romantic novels can make us unlucky in love

The Proust Book Club: The View from Age 38

How Repulsive: On the merits of disturbing literature

What Kind of Name Is That? How to Name Fictional Characters

Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code

The Noonday Demon

'RuneScape' Can't Escape 2007

Lobster and Vodka Chez Burroughs (2014)

Immortal Beloved: On the missing persons of love poetry

Ways David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Predicted the Future

How Intellectuals Create a Public

Ernie and Me: Falling in and – And Falling Out – With Ernest Hemingway

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