Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Acclaimed novelist Paul Theroux is equally famous for his travel writing. In his latest eloquent and entertaining account of a journey, he retraces the tracks of the vast excursion he described in The Great Railway Bazaar more than thirty years ago, and marks the changes in sites and seer. Now in paperback. Read Our Review

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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