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An ambitious, multivalent fiction—its prose charts a course which leads the story through graphic art, playwriting, and philosophy—that begins in 1968 and captures a decade of political passions and ideological conflict as reflected in the experiences of an extraordinary cast of characters in San Francisco's Chinatown. If you're wondering at the future the past and present of the novel are pointing toward, look here.

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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