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There is no better reading in the run-up to the Super Bowl than this riveting diary of the 1967 football season by then Green Bay offensive lineman Jerry Kramer, who played a pivotal role in the Packers' dramatic NFL championship win against the Dallas Cowboys. Jonathan Yardley has called it "the best inside account of pro football, indeed the best book ever written about that sport"—and both assertions are still true.

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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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