Since we last wrote, there have been two very big losses to the world of writing. Rest in peace, Elmore Leonard, darling of Hollywood and king of crime. And rest in peace, Seamus Heaney, perhaps the greatest poet of the late twentieth century and almost certainly the most famous. We will miss you both terribly.
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