tis a sad day

NEW YORK · Barbara Epstein, a founder and co-editor of The New York Review of Books who was involved in editing The Diary of Anne Frank early in her career, died Friday at age 76.

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Also, lest AGI be thought to only provide content when people expire, I'll start blogging soon, and not on the dead beat. But I've said that before, so be a good little reader and take my word for it.