Articles by samclemens
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The Expert as Tourist (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Who Is America's Homer? (plough.com)

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Book prizes don't work how you think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)

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The Expert as Tourist (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)

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Who Is America's Homer? (plough.com)

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The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature (theatlantic.com)

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Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel (newyorker.com)

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Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)

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Some Like It Literary (nytimes.com)

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Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)

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Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014) (theappendix.net)

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The Trail of Jeremiah (theamericanscholar.org)

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Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? (nytimes.com)

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The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About (theatlantic.com)

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Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales (thenation.com)

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The Book News Isn't All Bad (reactormag.com)

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The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (thenation.com)

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The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (thenation.com)

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The Reckless Women Who Changed Journalism (theatlantic.com)

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The Starving Time in Jamestown (historytoday.com)

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Malcolm Cowley helped build a golden age of American letters (newrepublic.com)

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Those Who Can, Teach History (historytoday.com)

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The Godless Students of London University (historytoday.com)

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Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period? (nytimes.com)

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The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing (hedgehogreview.com)

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Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period? (nytimes.com)

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After Every Clue (thenation.com)

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The Last Intellectual (nplusonemag.com)

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The Rise and Fall and Rise of American Publishing (libertiesjournal.com)

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The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow (metropolitanreview.org)

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Virginia Faulkner: Writer, editor, and ghostwriter? (lithub.com)

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The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow (metropolitanreview.org)

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William Golding's Island of Savagery (historytoday.com)

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John Updike wrote it all down (newrepublic.com)

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A Tale of Two College Towns (hedgehogreview.com)

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Three Hapsburgs and a Reporter Walk into a Canadian Vault (nytimes.com)

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Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media? (harpers.org)

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We Used to Read Things in This Country (thebaffler.com)

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Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road (theamericanscholar.org)

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Did Charles I Have to Die? (historytoday.com)

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Ad-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science (historytoday.com)

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How sober should a writer be? (yalereview.org)

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library (smithsonianmag.com)

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Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia (historytoday.com)

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John Ashbery's Analyst (theparisreview.org)

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Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders? (washingtonpost.com)

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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please (theringer.com)

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"Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific (lithub.com)

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Fitzgerald's Follies (libertiesjournal.com)

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'The Devil Wears Rothko' Review: Victimhood and Vanity (wsj.com)

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When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink in Outer Space (nytimes.com)

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A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham (laphamsquarterly.org)

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The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club (historytoday.com)

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Shadow of a Doubt (harpers.org)

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men' (nytimes.com)

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The Epic of James Joyce (newstatesman.com)

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I am an audience, first and foremost (ratsfromrocks.substack.com)

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Twain Dreams (harpers.org)

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The Maid Who Restored Charles II (historytoday.com)

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I Am an Audience, First and Foremost (ratsfromrocks.substack.com)

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The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem (historytoday.com)

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All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century US (oup.com)

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The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com)

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Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon (thepointmag.com)

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The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com)

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Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com)

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Mark Twain was the original American celebrity (wsj.com)

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The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make English Words Behave (nytimes.com)

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Chariot and Saucer (jewishreviewofbooks.com)

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Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte (publicdomainreview.org)

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"Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa (publicbooks.org)

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'Bright Circle' and 'Margaret Fuller': The Rise of the Transcendental Woman (wsj.com)

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What America Can Learn from the Americas (newrepublic.com)

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The Heir Conditioner (lareviewofbooks.org)

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The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak (neh.gov)

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Henry James's American Journey (chronicle.com)

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Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century (publicdomainreview.org)

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Graydon Carter's Wild Ride Through the Golden Age of Magazines (newyorker.com)

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Billy Possum Tried–and Failed–To Replace the Teddy Bear as America's Toy (smithsonianmag.com)

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Dante's Divine Autofiction (newstatesman.com)

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Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Baritsu (historytoday.com)

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When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong (nytimes.com)

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The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From? (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Cocaine Files (cbc.ca)

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The Gilded Age Never Ended (newyorker.com)

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How Have Cults Shaped American History? (historytoday.com)

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Stolen and Missing Moon Rocks (wikipedia.org)

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The Prudence and Principles of Martin Van Buren (lawliberty.org)

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Nellie Bly (wikipedia.org)

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Losing It on Live TV (nytimes.com)

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Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time (historytoday.com)

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Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II (newrepublic.com)

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Potoooooooo (wikipedia.org)

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Bunkers in Albania (wikipedia.org)

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1972 – 1982: The Decade That Changed Fitness Forever (nytimes.com)

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Turkish chef recreates 8,600-year-old Neolithic bread (aa.com.tr)

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The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles (commonplace.online)

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The Editor Who Drove Hemingway Away (jstor.org)

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Bad Moon Rising (archaeology.org)