Blood-Dark Track

Now resissued in paperback, this fascinating family history by Joseph O'Neill, the author of the acclaimed novel, Netherworld, details his investigations into the World War II imprisonments of his grandfathers, one an Irishman active in the IRA, the other a Turkish hotelier suspected of being an Axis spy.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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