Stories by samclemens

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

Dungeons and Dragons All Started in This Tiny Wisconsin Town

Old Newspaper Stories Offer Clues to 19th-Century Shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Tunnel Vision: When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinism and Religion in America

Fighting with Words: Richard Wright's Memoir, 'Black Boy (American Hunger)'

Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf]

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century

The Affair That Split New York High Society

Overlooked No More: Cordell Jackson, Elder Stateswoman of Rock 'N' Roll

The Harvard Body-Snatching Case, and the Economy of Human Remains

Beware the Lides of March

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