This Beautiful Life

Ripped from current headlines, yet artfully enhanced, Helen Schulman's novel about the dire outcome of an adolescent sexting incident transcends mere journalism to become a Dreiserian examination of privilege, parenting, scandal, and cyberculture. One boy's mistakes reverberate throughout his family, community, and the interconnected global culture.

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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