The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

A 91-year-old is rescued from dementia by an experimental medical program that rejuvenates his mind while limiting his remaining days. Broadening the scope of his crime novels yet retaining their edgy suspense, Walter Mosley here ponders themes of aging, memory, family, and love with powerful effect.

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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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