Miles Klee

Miles Klee is a reporter for the Daily Dot and the author of the novel Ivyland, a finalist in the 2013 Tournament of Books, and the short-story collection True/False. His fiction, satire, and essays have been featured by Vanity Fair, The Awl, the New York Observer, Salon, The Village Voice, The Millions, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and others.

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All That Glitters

By Miles Klee

During the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, “Soapy” Smith made a fortune taking advantage of would-be millionaires. A hundred years later, the aspirational rich are still the easiest targets. More

Ted Kaczynski as a young professor at U.C. Berkeley, 1968
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Alternative Histories

By Miles Klee

When homegrown radicals decide to take what they often call revolutionary action—with a bomb, a gun, or worse—their visions often have little to do with the reform of government, and everything to do with a maniacal will to shape another world. More

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Die Laughing

By Miles Klee

Is it any wonder that we secretly view laughter as black magic, unpredictably hazardous? Only when you hear the common evolutionary explanation for laughter: it serves to express relief. Not just from the urge to laugh, but from some awful danger, a cosmic threat imagined by and for the self. More

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Ever After

By Miles Klee

How one sets out to conquer death has everything to do with how one defines it. “We don’t get old, we rust from oxygen,” explains Dr. Harry B. Demopoulos, a researcher (and former actor) who studies ischemic injury, looking for methods to mitigate cellular damage caused by a restriction in blood supply. A Spaniard of the sixteenth century might put more stock in the Fountain of Youth, that mythic baptismal curative. More

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Pet Cemetery

By Miles Klee

It’s long been suggested that animals (dogs, cats, and even dolphins) have connections to other worlds. A history of animal sixth senses, from ancient Egypt to modern-day Alaska. More