Stories by samclemens

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”

The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era

Bartleby, the Scrivener: An interactive, annotated story of Wall Street

My Dark California Dream

Newspaper moguls and the birth of a media labor movement

My Writing Education: A Timeline by George Saunders

Living Above the Store: Standup Comedy’s Legendary Frat House

Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity into His Books, Has Died

John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet

In Defense of Thoreau

John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet

Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says

Truman Capote's Early Stories

Crushing up pain pills and spitting out lives in West Virginia coal country

Shrimp Boy's Day in Court

Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s Moral Myopia

Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa

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