Stories by samclemens

Umberto's Echoes

The Rookie and the Zetas: A Drug Cartel's Horse-Racing Empire

Why Teach English? (2013)

How to Cure a Cold (1863)

How the Fight Against Urban Renewal Shaped 1970s Houston

Truman Capote, the Art of Fiction No. 17 (1957)

The Trials of White Boy Rick (2014)

The Editor of the Paris Review on the Power of Ambiguity in Fiction

Writers in the Storm

David Pelham: The Art of Inner Space

What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans

San Francisco's Chinatown, before the earthquake (1896-1906)

Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European buildings – where are they now?

Mister Lytle: An Essay (2010)

Why so many Americans claim Cherokee ancestry

President Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation Pt. II

A new history asks: Has all the progress of the past 100 years come undone?

The War Between the Barbates: Facial Hair of the Commanders of the US Civil War

The Saccharine History of Candy Corn

The Birth of “The New Yorker Story”

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