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From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte's searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask.A New York Times Book Review Editors' Ch...

150 Years Ago:      July 1871 July            1st     Vineyard Sound Telegraph Cable - Hon.  James Buffinton received an official letter on Friday from Secretary Boutwell at Washington, saying, "Instructions have been forwarded to the commanding officer of the revenue steamer Moccasin to render such assistance as is necessary in relaying the Vineyard Sound telegraph cable."   July           8th      Attacked by Bull - Mr. Joshua S. Bowman, of West Falmouth, wa...