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YA bestseller Eleanor & Park to become a film
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Happy Birthday, Donald Barthelme
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Classicist says quote of Virgil’s inscribed on 9/11 Memorial is “shockingly inappropriate”
Next month the National September 11 Memorial Museum will open. On a bare concrete wall that separates visitors from a repository holding the unidentified remains of victims of the September… Read more »
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