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samclemens

24,630karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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21 pts
Did This Writer Know Tennessee Williams?(newyorker.com)
3y ago·4 comments
19 pts
Chronicler of the Flower Moon(theringer.com)
3y ago·4 comments
63 pts
A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019)(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·19 comments
11 pts
Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away(nytimes.com)
3y ago·7 comments
66 pts
English in the Real World(themillions.com)
3y ago·72 comments
29 pts
Can a novel capture the power of money?(newyorker.com)
3y ago·9 comments
41 pts
The Birth of Brainstorming(laphamsquarterly.org)
3y ago·4 comments
69 pts
Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger(thebaffler.com)
3y ago·210 comments
46 pts
The Language of Democracy(dissentmagazine.org)
3y ago·52 comments
59 pts
What scares master of suspense Dean Koontz? Plenty(washingtonpost.com)
3y ago·53 comments
114 pts
Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance(wired.com)
3y ago·67 comments
31 pts
Digitized silhouette portraits shed light on 19th century life(nytimes.com)
3y ago·2 comments
45 pts
Why Tocqueville Matters(newstatesman.com)
3y ago·72 comments
7 pts
How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer(newyorker.com)
3y ago·discuss
55 pts
The Origins of Creativity(newyorker.com)
3y ago·14 comments
32 pts
Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade”(lareviewofbooks.org)
3y ago·24 comments
46 pts
Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest(newrepublic.com)
3y ago·32 comments
17 pts
Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)(publicdomainreview.org)
3y ago·discuss
3 pts
You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)(historymuse.net)
3y ago·1 comments
237 pts
Rational Dress Society(en.wikipedia.org)
3y ago·193 comments
40 pts
Subterranean Treasures: Cormac McCarthy’s late style(thenation.com)
3y ago·35 comments
16 pts
A Master of a Curious Midcentury Art Form, the Industrial Musical(texasmonthly.com)
3y ago·2 comments
85 pts
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act(theatlantic.com)
3y ago·55 comments
10 pts
Writer's Award Winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part II(blogs.bl.uk)
3y ago·discuss
82 pts
Beware of Book Blurbs(themillions.com)
3y ago·70 comments
13 pts
The Earthshaking History of San Francisco’s Quake Shacks(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·4 comments
81 pts
Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman(lithub.com)
3y ago·77 comments
2 pts
‘A Mystery of Mysteries’ Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door(wsj.com)
3y ago·discuss
47 pts
The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902(daily.jstor.org)
3y ago·43 comments
52 pts
The Mistress of Slang(chronicle.com)
3y ago·5 comments