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A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | best

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Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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English in the Real World (themillions.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | themillions.com | frontpage

4

Can a novel capture the power of money? (newyorker.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | frontpage

5

The Birth of Brainstorming (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | samclemens | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger (thebaffler.com)

a year ago | samclemens | thebaffler.com | best

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The Language of Democracy (dissentmagazine.org)

a year ago | samclemens | dissentmagazine.org | frontpage

18

What scares master of suspense Dean Koontz? Plenty (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance (wired.com)

a year ago | samclemens | wired.com | best

5

Digitized silhouette portraits shed light on 19th century life (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Why Tocqueville Matters (newstatesman.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newstatesman.com | best

1

How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer (newyorker.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | frontpage

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The Origins of Creativity (newyorker.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | best

9

Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade” (lareviewofbooks.org)

a year ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

11

Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | frontpage

3

Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

3

You and the Atomic Bomb (1945) (historymuse.net)

a year ago | samclemens | historymuse.net | newest

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Rational Dress Society (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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Subterranean Treasures: Cormac McCarthy’s late style (thenation.com)

a year ago | samclemens | thenation.com | frontpage

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A Master of a Curious Midcentury Art Form, the Industrial Musical (texasmonthly.com)

a year ago | samclemens | texasmonthly.com | frontpage

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | theatlantic.com | best

2

Writer's Award Winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part II (blogs.bl.uk)

a year ago | samclemens | bl.uk | frontpage

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Beware of Book Blurbs (themillions.com)

a year ago | samclemens | themillions.com | frontpage

2

The Earthshaking History of San Francisco’s Quake Shacks (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman (lithub.com)

a year ago | samclemens | lithub.com | frontpage

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‘A Mystery of Mysteries’ Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door (wsj.com)

a year ago | samclemens | wsj.com | newest

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The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902 (jstor.org)

a year ago | samclemens | jstor.org | frontpage

7

The Mistress of Slang (chronicle.com)

a year ago | samclemens | chronicle.com | best

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It was the biggest painting in the world – how could it just disappear? (forward.com)

a year ago | samclemens | forward.com | frontpage

15

The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel) (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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The Golden Age of Glossies (nybooks.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nybooks.com | frontpage

5

A Stick Chart from the Marshall Islands (2016) (sapiens.org)

a year ago | samclemens | sapiens.org | frontpage

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When Truman Capote’s lies caught up with him (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | theatlantic.com | best

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Grandma Gatewood (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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Abraham Lincoln’s other legacy: An obsession with open caskets (grid.news)

a year ago | samclemens | grid.news | newest

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A civil war over semicolons: Robert Caro and his editor (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | theatlantic.com | best

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Getting lost in the world’s largest stack of menus (tastecooking.com)

a year ago | samclemens | tastecooking.com | frontpage

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‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ at 100: The story behind the classic Christmas tale (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Eyes That Bite (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | samclemens | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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Britain’s empire of science (newstatesman.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newstatesman.com | best

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Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career (yalereview.org)

a year ago | samclemens | yalereview.org | best

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The father of all secrets: John le Carré’s daddy issues (thebaffler.com)

a year ago | samclemens | thebaffler.com | frontpage

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A Fragmentary History of California (thenation.com)

a year ago | samclemens | thenation.com | frontpage

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Mocha Dick (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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George Saunders on Writing (orionmagazine.org)

a year ago | samclemens | orionmagazine.org | frontpage

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Pictorial Maps of the United States (jstor.org)

a year ago | samclemens | jstor.org | frontpage

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Salem Witchcraft Trial (1878) (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Nineteenth-century NYC was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | samclemens | laphamsquarterly.org | newest

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Baseball Cards: 1912 Boston Garters (cycleback.com)

a year ago | samclemens | cycleback.com | frontpage

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University Presses Are Keeping American Literature Alive (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Remembering David McCullough Off the Page, as a Champion of Preservation (historynewsnetwork.org)

a year ago | samclemens | historynewsnetwork.org | newest

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Adventure Painters of the Southwest (hyperallergic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | hyperallergic.com | frontpage

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Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution (newyorker.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | newest

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The Los Angeles Breakfast Club Nearly Disappeared (latimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | latimes.com | frontpage

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A Priceless Archive of Ordinary Life (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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The Haunted Past (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Joan Didion’s Life in Objects (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Interview with Andrew Wylie, the world’s leading literary agent (elpais.com)

a year ago | samclemens | elpais.com | frontpage

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The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’ (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | samclemens | mit.edu | frontpage

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Pig War (1859) (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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What Counts as a Bestseller? (publicbooks.org)

a year ago | samclemens | publicbooks.org | frontpage

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Did JFK Eat the World’s Largest Tamale? (texasmonthly.com)

a year ago | samclemens | texasmonthly.com | frontpage

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Leftover Star Wars Sets (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run over (1900) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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A Drunk Driver Led to the Birth of Russia’s Sputnik 1 (medium.com/science-and-philosophy)

a year ago | samclemens | medium.com | frontpage

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Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Art of Menus (spectator.co.uk)

a year ago | samclemens | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled with Rare Recordings (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video] (aeon.co)

a year ago | samclemens | aeon.co | best

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San Francisco’s famous sourdough was once gross

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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San Francisco's Postwar Sex District (2006)

a year ago | samclemens | foundsf.org | frontpage

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The Projectionist: On the best job that no longer exists

a year ago | samclemens | pipewrenchmag.com | best

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Think Outside the Bun

a year ago | samclemens | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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The Death of Pennsylvania’s Forgotten Funeral Pie

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | newest

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The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory–and Unsavory–History

a year ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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A history of the blurb, every author’s best friend

a year ago | samclemens | sfchronicle.com | frontpage

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Living closer together

a year ago | samclemens | aeon.co | frontpage

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The life and sketchy business practices of Crazy Eddie

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Tom Kromer, Appalachia’s Forgotten Modernist

a year ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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A Caribbean ‘Cow’ Tooth Could Solve the Mystery of the Chincoteague Ponies

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi

a year ago | samclemens | hakaimagazine.com | best

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An artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet (2021)

a year ago | samclemens | collectorsweekly.com | frontpage

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Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (2019)

a year ago | samclemens | collectorsweekly.com | frontpage

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Two prominent men died on the Titanic. Were they a couple?

a year ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | frontpage