Stories by samclemens

Rarities from My Grandfather’s House of Books

Clearing Up Ambiguity

Willie and the Weed Factory

The Sleep Deaths That Inspired Freddy Krueger

How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The History of Delivering Packages

How Literary Fame Happens

Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway

From Retail Palace to Zombie Mall: How Efficiency Killed the Department Store

The Books That Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century

A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937

Oliver Sacks: Sabbath

The Desk of Haruki Murakami

WB Yeats, the art teacher and a night at the sexologist’s

Ursula K. Le Guin: By the Book

Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists (2013)

Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club

A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage

Harper Lee and the Cold War Canon

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