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June 18, 2010

Nightingale Wood

If you're one of the many fans of Stella Gibbons's hilarious British satire Cold Comfort Farm, you'll be delighted to discover another gem from that comic novelist's pen, first written in 1938 and just reissued in paperback with an introduction by Sophie Dahl.

Daybook

May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

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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