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samclemens

24,630karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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70 pts
Curse of the Colonel(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·13 comments
109 pts
Notes from the End of a Long Life(nytimes.com)
4y ago·71 comments
35 pts
Sinclair Lewis saw Middle America as it was(nytimes.com)
4y ago·7 comments
13 pts
‘Tractor Wars’ Review: American Power Pull(wsj.com)
4y ago·discuss
11 pts
The Mosaicist: On Evan S. Connell(harpers.org)
4y ago·1 comments
48 pts
$30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions(nytimes.com)
4y ago·38 comments
1 pts
The Coin Standard: On the Failed Dreams of William Hope Harvey(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
25 pts
Odd Showers (1870)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·2 comments
37 pts
George Orwell Outside the Whale(newstatesman.com)
4y ago·11 comments
20 pts
Frost at Midnight(nybooks.com)
4y ago·discuss
13 pts
HG Wells and the Human Animal(newstatesman.com)
4y ago·2 comments
22 pts
William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·discuss
13 pts
George Sand’s Boots(aeon.co)
4y ago·discuss
10 pts
The Comforts of a Single State(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·2 comments
27 pts
Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·24 comments
9 pts
Chasing Phillis Wheatley: Uncovering other possibilities from the past(hedgehogreview.com)
4y ago·discuss
12 pts
A Donkey’s Day in Court(historytoday.com)
4y ago·discuss
10 pts
Novel Transport: The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·1 comments
30 pts
The Resurrection of Bass Reeves(texasmonthly.com)
4y ago·1 comments
35 pts
The Mysterious Case of Mr. X(longreads.com)
4y ago·4 comments
50 pts
A day with the squirrel hawkers of East Texas(texasmonthly.com)
4y ago·27 comments
85 pts
Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir(newyorker.com)
4y ago·54 comments
23 pts
The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871(blogs.loc.gov)
4y ago·14 comments
65 pts
The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay(nytimes.com)
4y ago·25 comments
52 pts
When Americans picnicked in cemeteries(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·57 comments
26 pts
Thoreau in Love(newyorker.com)
4y ago·1 comments
43 pts
As Far from Heaven as Possible(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
29 pts
The Obsessive Life of the Fisherman Who Discovered the Loch Ness Monster (2020)(narratively.com)
4y ago·16 comments
24 pts
Outcasts and Desperados: On Richard Wright(lrb.co.uk)
4y ago·1 comments
13 pts
Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·9 comments