Never Back Down

In Ernest Hebert's autobiographical novel, Jack Landry, a promising high school baseball player from small-town New Hampshire, strives to live by one simple motto: Never back down, never institgate. At least, it seems like a simple motto. But life proves far more complicated in this uniquely American coming-of-age story.

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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