Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: "Race to Death Valley"

Just as Carl Barks was known as "the good duck artist" in his anonymous heyday, so too was Floyd Gottfredson regarded as the exemplary purveyor of Mickey Mouse's adventures, endowing the beloved rodent with more panache and pep than his Disney peers could see in the character. This first offering from Gottfredson's long tenure -- he chronicled Mickey's exploits for 45 years -- bundles a complete adventure with over 50 pages of supplemental material.

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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