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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending

47 points8 hoursnewyorker.com
a1o2 hours ago

This magazine shows a pop that makes Safari ignore the gesture to go back, can't scroll up to go back to the address bar. For people using Safari on iPhone, is there any secret gesture to kill a tab like this?

ycombinete2 hours ago

Put it into reader mode as soon as the page loads, before the pop-up spawns.

kleiba4 hours ago
verisimi2 hours ago

I love this line:

> Rick Gekoski, a book dealer who did business with Mr. Horowitz, described him in 2007 as “a terrific combination of a scholar and a grifter.”

parkcedar6 hours ago
tptacek7 hours ago

"Keenly attuned to his guests’ networks and net worths" is a cute turn of phrase.

Watch out for this story, it'll suck you in.

ajdlinux5 hours ago

I have just lost an hour of my workday. A good longform profile of a single controversial character will do that to me.

ballooney6 hours ago

Exactly the sort of darling that that my college tutor would have said needed to be killed. “Yes, I know you’re very proud of it…”

stavros2 hours ago

Why would they say that it needs to be killed? To what end?

pjc501 hour ago

The phrase "kill your darlings" circulates in fiction writing schools. The reasoning is that a "darling" turn of phrase which the author really likes is likely something that they are irrationally obsessed over and that distorts the editing process around itself, to the detriment of overall quality.

Like a lot of writing advice this is really subjective.