Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84

In “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

In ‘The New Yorker’ that just arrived. David Remnick writes about the massive biography of Philip Roth that will come out in a week or so: 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/the-secrets-philip-roth-didnt-keep

‘MORE THAN HALF OF ALL THE CHILDREN who turn 10 this year will reach their milestone birthday without being able to read a simple sentence, according to a new analysis of UN data.’ A piece in The Guardian about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/22/un-covid-impact-education-inequality-half-children-cannot-read-by-age-10?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

THE FRONT OF THE LINE waiting to get in the Strand Bookstore here in Manhattan yesterday. On weekends there are lines.

A marcher in the anti-Asian-crime protest march here in New York just now on Sunday morning.