What are you reading?

What are you reading?
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answer:Catching up on my New Yorker issues. Summer happens, the magazines piled up. What is hitting me most is the velocity of Jill Lepore’s output. I don’t understand how one person can write in such depth on so many subjects. The New Yorker – Jill Lepore
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