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Death of an Avid Reader

Remembering Robert Gottlieb, the editor of Toni Morrison, Robert Caro, and many others, who died last week at 92
Source: George Etheredge / The New York Times / Redux

We for whom reading is our daily bread and writing an addictive elixir, we whose words came into being under the exacting eye of Robert Gottlieb, we who now outlandishly outlive him—but stop! Is it possible to outlast a permanence, a presence that has molded a culture, a figure who has no successors and cannot be replicated, who presided over the shaping of books as a

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