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January 11, 2011

Sea Change

The narrator of this novel by Jeremy Page, author of the acclaimed Salt, lives adrift on an old Dutch barge in the North Atlantic, writing an invented future for his deceased young daughter in the form of a family road trip across America. Lyrical and haunting.

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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