The Lion Is In

Three women -- a runaway bride, a recovering alcoholic, and a minister's wife desperate to escape her marriage -- go on the lam together until their car breaks down on a rural highway in North Carolina. Which is where they meet Marcel, a retired circus lion. And that's when the adventure really begins in Delia Ephron's madcap novel.

May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

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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