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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

the cure for despair

"The worst possible thing those of us who care about literature can do is sell it short and put some end date to it," writes Gerald Howard, a retired book editor. "An irrational belief in literature's primacy in and importance to the human prospect is the cure for despair."

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