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Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

Lev Grossman

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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Lexington
Massachusetts
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