Dogfight: A Love Story

With its compressed timeframe, New York City setting, and lively mix of humor and violence, Matt Burgess's debut novel, chronicling the tribulations during a single weekend of a youthful Queens drug dealer, might turn out to be a new generation's version of Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

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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