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samclemens

24,631karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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9 pts
John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet(bostonreview.net)
10y ago·discuss
3 pts
In Defense of Thoreau(theatlantic.com)
10y ago·discuss
6 pts
John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet(bostonreview.net)
10y ago·discuss
106 pts
Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says(nytimes.com)
10y ago·104 comments
12 pts
Truman Capote's Early Stories(newyorker.com)
10y ago·discuss
16 pts
Crushing up pain pills and spitting out lives in West Virginia coal country(narrative.ly)
10y ago·14 comments
35 pts
Shrimp Boy's Day in Court(nytimes.com)
11y ago·6 comments
2 pts
Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s Moral Myopia(newyorker.com)
11y ago·discuss
29 pts
Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa(www2.nybooks.com)
11y ago·12 comments
49 pts
The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago’s most vital newspaper(theawl.com)
11y ago·12 comments
2 pts
Forecast (1865)(laphamsquarterly.org)
11y ago·discuss
58 pts
Why We Mostly Stopped Messing with Shakespeare's Language(newyorker.com)
11y ago·44 comments
32 pts
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of American Whiskey(collectorsweekly.com)
11y ago·11 comments
31 pts
The Price Is Right: What Advertising Does to TV(newyorker.com)
11y ago·5 comments
2 pts
George RR Martin: our long obsession with Mars(theguardian.com)
11y ago·discuss
7 pts
New edition of TS Eliot poetry challenges perceptions of his sexuality(theguardian.com)
11y ago·discuss
13 pts
Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Sci-Fi in “The Doom of the Great City” (1880)(publicdomainreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
8 pts
The new world order of Césaire and Senghor(aeon.co)
11y ago·discuss
16 pts
Walter Benjamin’s legacy, 75 years on(theguardian.com)
11y ago·1 comments
31 pts
Total Literary Awareness: How the FBI Pre-Read African American Writing(theamericanreader.com)
11y ago·2 comments
3 pts
Esquire Has a Cold: How the Magazine Is Mining Its Archives(niemanlab.org)
11y ago·discuss
12 pts
How Border Drones Were Born During the Vietnam War(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
11y ago·discuss
2 pts
The Divine Inspiration of Jim Jones(believermag.com)
11y ago·discuss
1 pts
War Without Reason: Kissinger's Shadow(jacobinmag.com)
11y ago·discuss
6 pts
Cosmic Kinship: John Stewart's “Sensate Matter” in the Early Republic(common-place.org)
11y ago·discuss
8 pts
The History of New York's 'Hotel for Autos'(citylab.com)
11y ago·1 comments
10 pts
The Perpetually Dying Art of the Small-Town Obituary(atlasobscura.com)
11y ago·discuss
50 pts
‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut (2012)(thenation.com)
11y ago·2 comments
69 pts
Browse Documents Submitted by Enslaved People Petitioning for Freedom(slate.com)
11y ago·9 comments
14 pts
Teaching a Different Shakespeare Than the One I Love(nytimes.com)
11y ago·10 comments