Why 🦉 CultureCultureCulture picked: “It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert P. Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

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  This is a moving remembrance of the renowned author Annie Dillard.

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• Robert P. Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81, and who took as her subject the whole world, in its confounding cruelty and sublime wonder. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Sljhqr

  This is a thoughtful tribute remembering the renowned writer Annie Dillard and her incredible literary legacy.

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