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Salinger outmoded?

Junot Díaz’s Drown is one of the works an Oberlin professor says should replace The Catcher in the Rye on high school syllabi.

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Nabokov notecards surfacing

Nabokov’s unfinished The Original of Laura comprises 138 index cards. Last weekend, Die Zeit thrilled fans by running scans of four.

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