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March 8, 2011

Paris Was Ours

32 writers—including novelists Diane Johnson and Edmund White, biographers Stacy Schiff and Judith Thurman, and humorist Joe Queenan—contribute their private perspectives to this charming celebration of the City of Light and its special way of illuminating lives.

Daybook

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…

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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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