"A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall."
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‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.
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Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for the New York Times. He is notable for denying his African ancestry by passing as white.
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