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samclemens

24,631karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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11 pts
Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty (2015)(theparisreview.org)
5y ago·discuss
30 pts
What Our Biggest Best-Sellers Tell Us About a Nation’s Soul(newyorker.com)
5y ago·22 comments
30 pts
A Brief History of the Amphicar – President Lyndon Johnson’s Favorite Car (2020)(silodrome.com)
5y ago·32 comments
37 pts
Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?(newyorker.com)
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3 pts
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921(publicdomainreview.org)
5y ago·discuss
44 pts
On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)(publicdomainreview.org)
5y ago·11 comments
19 pts
Faulkner vs. Wellman: The Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1946 Showdown (2012)(thepassingtramp.blogspot.com)
5y ago·1 comments
10 pts
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960(en.wikipedia.org)
5y ago·discuss
21 pts
Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’ (2019)(theguardian.com)
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4 pts
Len Deighton and the Mundanity of Spies(newstatesman.com)
5y ago·1 comments
2 pts
Kentucky Meat Shower(en.wikipedia.org)
5y ago·discuss
13 pts
The Heart of the Matter: George Orwell and Fatherhood (2020)(orwellsociety.com)
5y ago·discuss
18 pts
Going into the City(laphamsquarterly.org)
5y ago·1 comments
73 pts
A Somewhat Comprehensive History of U.S. Senators Who Have Died in Duels(defector.com)
5y ago·59 comments
44 pts
A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021(thenation.com)
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36 pts
The Lives of Napoleon(historytoday.com)
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22 pts
What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal(washingtonpost.com)
5y ago·21 comments
85 pts
The Opportunists(theatlantic.com)
5y ago·21 comments
10 pts
Where She Was From: The Collected Joan Didion(wsj.com)
5y ago·5 comments
10 pts
Novels and Novellas and Tomes, Oh My!(countercraft.substack.com)
5y ago·5 comments
28 pts
Simone Weil for Americans(lareviewofbooks.org)
5y ago·5 comments
81 pts
The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son(harpers.org)
5y ago·7 comments
6 pts
The Purging of Chinese from America(newyorker.com)
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1 pts
Lyndon Johnson’s Campaign by Helicopter (2016)(airspacemag.com)
5y ago·discuss
86 pts
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine(en.wikipedia.org)
5y ago·30 comments
41 pts
‘Things’ in Fiction Shape the Way We Read(thenation.com)
5y ago·2 comments
8 pts
The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad (2017)(nytimes.com)
5y ago·1 comments
2 pts
Pigeon Racing: A Miner’s World?(historytoday.com)
5y ago·discuss
30 pts
A Theory of Thorstein Veblen(thebaffler.com)
5y ago·5 comments
9 pts
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner – New Journalism given a new lease of life(theguardian.com)
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