Stories by samclemens

Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history

Survival Situation: The debate over evolution and its discoverer

Orwell: The Rewrite

Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions'

The technologies of all dead generations (2023)

The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction

Hari Kunzru on Rereading the Classics

America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation

What Is an Editor?

The Bestselling English Novels of the 19th Century, Ranked: Part One

Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band

Battle over Beer Split a Texas Town's Biggest Party

The Bits We Usually Ignore: Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More

How to Eat a Rattlesnake

Henry James and H.G. Well's Feud About Writing and the Purpose of Art (2016)

Rhyme as Reason

Insatiable: A life without eating

Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce

A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades

America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150

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