The Anatomy of Ghosts

Blending classic spooky doings with domestic tragedy, award-winning British mystery writer Andrew Taylor takes the reader on an emotionally touching and intellectually stimulating adventure, set in 1786 at Jerusalem College, Cambridge. Evoking the eerie enchantments of ghost story master M. R. James, Taylor's rich novel wraps a riveting story around a philosophical quest into the afterlife.

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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