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samclemens

24,630karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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4 pts
Interview with Andrew Wylie, the world’s leading literary agent(english.elpais.com)
3y ago·discuss
44 pts
The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
3y ago·44 comments
25 pts
Pig War (1859)(en.wikipedia.org)
3y ago·11 comments
4 pts
What Counts as a Bestseller?(publicbooks.org)
3y ago·discuss
26 pts
Did JFK Eat the World’s Largest Tamale?(texasmonthly.com)
3y ago·3 comments
31 pts
Leftover Star Wars Sets(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·19 comments
46 pts
“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run over (1900)(publicdomainreview.org)
3y ago·19 comments
28 pts
A Drunk Driver Led to the Birth of Russia’s Sputnik 1(medium.com)
3y ago·15 comments
88 pts
Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered(nytimes.com)
3y ago·56 comments
46 pts
The Art of Menus(spectator.co.uk)
3y ago·6 comments
16 pts
Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled with Rare Recordings(nytimes.com)
3y ago·discuss
178 pts
Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video](aeon.co)
3y ago·98 comments
35 pts
San Francisco’s famous sourdough was once gross(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·73 comments
2 pts
What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago(nytimes.com)
3y ago·discuss
1 pts
Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate(nytimes.com)
3y ago·discuss
45 pts
San Francisco's Postwar Sex District (2006)(foundsf.org)
3y ago·34 comments
122 pts
The Projectionist: On the best job that no longer exists(pipewrenchmag.com)
3y ago·85 comments
8 pts
Think Outside the Bun(lrb.co.uk)
4y ago·discuss
1 pts
The Death of Pennsylvania’s Forgotten Funeral Pie(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·discuss
16 pts
The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory–and Unsavory–History(smithsonianmag.com)
4y ago·discuss
10 pts
A history of the blurb, every author’s best friend(datebook.sfchronicle.com)
4y ago·5 comments
25 pts
Living closer together(aeon.co)
4y ago·34 comments
59 pts
The life and sketchy business practices of Crazy Eddie(nytimes.com)
4y ago·24 comments
22 pts
Tom Kromer, Appalachia’s Forgotten Modernist(lareviewofbooks.org)
4y ago·1 comments
7 pts
A Caribbean ‘Cow’ Tooth Could Solve the Mystery of the Chincoteague Ponies(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·1 comments
104 pts
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi(hakaimagazine.com)
4y ago·45 comments
58 pts
An artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet (2021)(collectorsweekly.com)
4y ago·1 comments
26 pts
Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (2019)(collectorsweekly.com)
4y ago·11 comments
1 pts
Indiana Pi Bill(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·discuss