Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 15
1924 Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton 1937 To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway The dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. 2017 Dog Logic by Thomas Strelich and Tom Strelich Hertell Daggett discovers a lost civilization living under his failing pet cemetery. Well maybe not lost so much as just, misinformed -- they've been living beneath the pet cemetery due to some bad information they got back in 1963 about the end of the world, and were unaware that the world had wobbled on without them. Hertell finds a whole new life and whole new purpose as he lovingly leads his cherished duck-and-cover civilization into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying modern world. What cou...