Stories by samclemens

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

To Raise False Hopes: A Cure for Drunkards

A Different T.S. Eliot

The Century-Old Comic Strip Devoted to Cheese-Fueled Nightmares

The Wire Hanger’s Flexible Symbolism

Document: T. S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf (2011)

When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game

A Rolodex for the Nuclear Age

Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887)

How many hours a week should academics work?

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