To Be Sung Underwater

When Judith Whitman fell in love with the roughhewn Willy Blunt, she thought it was forever. But then she married someone else, and now she wonders, two decades later, if she made the right choice. Tom McNeal's novel jumps between the past and present in a heartbreaking story that captures the power of devotion and asks the question: is it ever too late to reclaim romance?

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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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