West of Here

Jonathan Evison's ambitious, absorbing novel proves that a small town harbors all the emotional scope needed to fuel fiction on an epic scale. Set on the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest, this satisfying creation is vivid with history, culture, and human stories that stretch from the last decade of the 19th century to the first decade of the 21st.

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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