Where'd You Go, Bernadette

On the eve of a family trip to Antarctica, brilliant recluse Bernadette Fox disappears. Her fifteen-year-old daughter, Bee, decides it's up to her to find her Mom, piecing together the mystery in this razor-sharp, madcap epistolary novel with a big, warm heart. A Discover Great New Writers selection.

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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