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The new novel?

Are three novels revised as one a new book? On Matthiessen’s status as NBA finalist for his (excellent) Shadow Country. (Via.)

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The uncommon writer

The incomparable Alan Bennett donates his papers to the Bodleian Library, with gratitude to the “nanny state” that sent him to Oxford on scholarship.

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