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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...

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Adam Gopnik
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: August 24
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Books
Tricky
Literature
Appetite
Kids
Unexpected
Book
Contemporary
Long
Places
Things
Exist
Among
Oddest
Strange
Inordinate

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