Stories by samclemens

The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman

Little Graves in Georgia

Inside Jobs (2015)

MFA vs. CIA

Victorian Jokes Database

Evelyn Waugh, the Art of Fiction No. 30 (1963)

Photography’s Blue Period

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

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