Stories by samclemens

Cormac McCarthy's Sideline: Freelance copy editor

Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing. What Happened?

A.J. Finn had a rise and fall. Now he has a new novel

The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax

The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom

Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars

How Thoreau challenged understandings of work, technology and the natural world

Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?

'American Journey' by Wes Davis Review

Lost Highway: The trials of trucking school

Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter

Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century

Who Is Reading What and Why

The Hold of the Dead over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore

A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet

Ichiki Shirō

Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick

Sliding Doors: The Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan

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