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samclemens

24,628karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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1 pts
Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·discuss
29 pts
A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·10 comments
108 pts
America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150(hedgehogreview.com)
2y ago·42 comments
13 pts
Dungeons and Dragons All Started in This Tiny Wisconsin Town(atlasobscura.com)
2y ago·3 comments
2 pts
Old Newspaper Stories Offer Clues to 19th-Century Shipwreck in Lake Michigan(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
41 pts
Tunnel Vision: When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose(historynewsnetwork.org)
2y ago·9 comments
1 pts
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinism and Religion in America(conversationswithtyler.com)
2y ago·discuss
10 pts
Fighting with Words: Richard Wright's Memoir, 'Black Boy (American Hunger)'(millersbookreview.com)
2y ago·discuss
63 pts
Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf](sseh.uchicago.edu)
2y ago·19 comments
150 pts
Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century(magazine.atavist.com)
2y ago·71 comments
2 pts
The Affair That Split New York High Society(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
5 pts
Overlooked No More: Cordell Jackson, Elder Stateswoman of Rock 'N' Roll(nytimes.com)
2y ago·8 comments
1 pts
The Harvard Body-Snatching Case, and the Economy of Human Remains(thethreepennyguignol.com)
2y ago·discuss
32 pts
Beware the Lides of March(historytoday.com)
2y ago·8 comments
91 pts
Cormac McCarthy's Sideline: Freelance copy editor(millersbookreview.com)
2y ago·70 comments
5 pts
Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing. What Happened?(slate.com)
2y ago·discuss
1 pts
A.J. Finn had a rise and fall. Now he has a new novel(washingtonpost.com)
2y ago·discuss
2 pts
The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax(arstechnica.com)
2y ago·discuss
143 pts
The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom(strangersguide.com)
2y ago·38 comments
45 pts
Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·11 comments
43 pts
Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars(historytoday.com)
2y ago·56 comments
4 pts
How Thoreau challenged understandings of work, technology and the natural world(the-tls.co.uk)
2y ago·discuss
2 pts
Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?(chronicle.com)
2y ago·discuss
1 pts
'American Journey' by Wes Davis Review(historytoday.com)
2y ago·discuss
33 pts
Lost Highway: The trials of trucking school(harpers.org)
2y ago·42 comments
1 pts
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter(newyorker.com)
2y ago·discuss
94 pts
Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century(asteriskmag.com)
2y ago·17 comments
1 pts
Who Is Reading What and Why(countercraft.substack.com)
2y ago·discuss
22 pts
The Hold of the Dead over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore(lareviewofbooks.org)
2y ago·3 comments
88 pts
A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet(hakaimagazine.com)
2y ago·15 comments