Little Century

In the spirit of My Antonia and There Will Be Blood, an orphaned 18-year-old girl heads west in search of her only living relative -- and finds herself in the middle of a war between sheep herders and cattle ranchers that threatens to keep the railroad from extending to their patch of wilderness. A Discover Great New Writers selection.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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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