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Jan 17, 2024
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Annie Dillard is one of the only contemporary writers — one of the only writers whose career has more or less overlapped Marilynne Robinson’s — whom Robinson is known to admire. (She also apparently went rafting once with both Dillard and Robert Stone, a detail that makes a person want to take up rafting.)

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