The Language of Flowers

A young woman raised in the foster care system makes her first shaky foray into adulthood and struggles to learn the language of the heart. Standing out among the season’s new offerings, Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s debut novel is a gorgeously written, absolutely absorbing, and deeply affecting story -- as enticing (and thorny) as a freshly plucked bouquet.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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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