Hell Is Empty

The vast reaches of Wyoming might not seem as dangerous as gun-happy urban streets, but Sheriff Walt Longmire would beg to differ, especially when he is placed in the deadly predicament of tracking down an escaped prisoner in blizzard conditions. Craig Johnson's splendid series of contemporary Westerns keeps getting better. 

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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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