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samclemens

24,628karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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128 pts
The Private Life: On James Baldwin(theparisreview.org)
2y ago·15 comments
36 pts
Eric Roberts (Spy)(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·4 comments
31 pts
I Miss Lorina Bulwer: A hand-stitched letter of note(news.lettersofnote.com)
2y ago·6 comments
15 pts
The curious history of chain letters (2010)(slate.com)
2y ago·discuss
2 pts
America Became "A City Upon a Hill": The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller(neh.gov)
2y ago·discuss
77 pts
The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey(bigthink.com)
2y ago·10 comments
57 pts
Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists(lookout.co)
2y ago·26 comments
7 pts
I put up a fence in Maine. Why did it cause such a fuss?(nytimes.com)
2y ago·4 comments
1 pts
The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face(newrepublic.com)
2y ago·discuss
4 pts
George Eyser, the one-legged gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games(theamericanscholar.org)
2y ago·discuss
47 pts
Overexposed(historynewsnetwork.org)
2y ago·8 comments
24 pts
An Accident in Space (1972)(newyorker.com)
2y ago·11 comments
81 pts
Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)(cliomuse.com)
2y ago·18 comments
82 pts
Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history(snackstack.net)
2y ago·46 comments
17 pts
Survival Situation: The debate over evolution and its discoverer(theamericanscholar.org)
2y ago·19 comments
50 pts
Orwell: The Rewrite(drb.ie)
2y ago·42 comments
12 pts
Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions'(atlasobscura.com)
2y ago·3 comments
2 pts
The technologies of all dead generations (2023)(bentarnoff.substack.com)
2y ago·discuss
38 pts
The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction(nytimes.com)
2y ago·32 comments
9 pts
Hari Kunzru on Rereading the Classics(theguardian.com)
2y ago·discuss
1 pts
America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation(theconversation.com)
2y ago·discuss
2 pts
What Is an Editor?(tabletmag.com)
2y ago·discuss
7 pts
The Bestselling English Novels of the 19th Century, Ranked: Part One(theseaofbooks.com)
2y ago·discuss
45 pts
Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band(nytimes.com)
2y ago·46 comments
1 pts
Battle over Beer Split a Texas Town's Biggest Party(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
2 pts
The Bits We Usually Ignore: Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More(millersbookreview.com)
2y ago·discuss
16 pts
How to Eat a Rattlesnake(newyorker.com)
2y ago·2 comments
3 pts
Henry James and H.G. Well's Feud About Writing and the Purpose of Art (2016)(themarginalian.org)
2y ago·discuss
34 pts
Rhyme as Reason(bigthink.com)
2y ago·39 comments
159 pts
Insatiable: A life without eating(longreads.com)
2y ago·77 comments